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BackupPC is the best one: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ You get every professional features out of the box (full/inc backups, deduplication, compression...) & everything is automated.
I think you're looking more for the "scheduling, managing pull from different clients" than the ability to backup to S3, Dropbox, local folder etc. There are plenty of software projects to choose from for the latter. Borgbackup, Restic, Plain old NFSv3 and rsync, Tarsnap, Backblaze B2 etc. I simply use a combination of Cron, rsync and Ansible to make backups to our central NAS, and that central NAS is mirrored to our…
I think you're looking more for the "scheduling, managing pull from different clients" than the ability to backup to S3, Dropbox, local folder etc. There are plenty of software projects to choose from for the latter. Borgbackup, Restic, Plain old NFSv3 and rsync, Tarsnap, Backblaze B2 etc. I simply use a combination of Cron, rsync and Ansible to make backups to our central NAS, and that central NAS is mirrored to our…
and if rsync doesn't quite work for what you need/a target you want to use, rclone is always an option as well https://rclone.org/
BackupPC is the best one: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ You get every professional features out of the box (full/inc backups, deduplication, compression...) & everything is automated.
Then does the hard part with diffs and etc?
Isn’t this already built in to Windows and I assume Linux(es)?
(I apologize for my ignorance here, not a sysAdmin)
BackupPC is the best one: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ You get every professional features out of the box (full/inc backups, deduplication, compression...) & everything is automated.
No client software, so I would have this installed on a VM on our server and it just goes to crawl and pull files from all the PCs? Then does the hard part with diffs and etc? Isn’t this already built in to Windows and I assume Linux(es)? (I apologize for my ignorance here, not a sysAdmin)
I couldn't use rsync.net though because all it's datacenters are outside of EEA, i'm currently looking into doing this myself on a simple VPS, ZFS for linux has matured quite well it seems. I'm a bit new to doing chroot jails on linux but the ZFS snapshot part is very easy if that's enough for you.
apt install zfsutils-linux
RE databases, with some extra work you could also use ZFS on the source server and take a snapshot of the database (once you invoke the correct commands to lock it), rather than do a dump, this would be very fast because it prevents the duplication of a dump, and therefor could be done much more frequently, you however have the additional complexity of then syncing the snapshot to another servers ZFS pool, although there are tools for this I haven't bothered going this far.
It's a command line tool that does all stuff related to backup perfectly. It's in the Debian repos.
It synces a given directory to a backup directory with an additional dir for metadata and history. It's super fast, even over the wire. It seems to achieve this by only sending the changed parts of files. I wonder if it also uses compression?
You can always change your directory back to any state you backed it up.
It has tons of nice features for checking the integrity of the backup, recovering single files from a given point of time etc.
Did I mention how much I love it?