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For remote backup I use Arq, but I have found that to be very buggy. I'm considering switching to rclone: https://rclone.org/
With both of those backup solutions in place I should be ready for pretty much everything.
For local bootable backup I use Mac Backup Guru, which I also wrote: https://macdaddy.io/mac-backup-software/ It's useful because it's the only software on OS X besides Time Machine which makes versioned (incremental) backups using hardlinks. For remote backup I use Arq, but I have found that to be very buggy. I'm considering switching to rclone: https://rclone.org/ With both of those backup solutions in place I shou…
I'm surprised that no one mentioned Tarsnap yet, it's run by a well known HNer (cperciva): http://www.tarsnap.com/ It's not exactly noob friendly though.
It's really easy to set up too: https://www.grepular.com/Secure_Free_Incremental_and_Instant...
For local bootable backup I use Mac Backup Guru, which I also wrote: https://macdaddy.io/mac-backup-software/ It's useful because it's the only software on OS X besides Time Machine which makes versioned (incremental) backups using hardlinks. For remote backup I use Arq, but I have found that to be very buggy. I'm considering switching to rclone: https://rclone.org/ With both of those backup solutions in place I shou…
Can you elaborate how Arq is buggy? I'm considering switching to Arq from Crashplan, because I supply my own storage for it anyway.
And more recently I made a backup to glacier, and it is trapped in "in progress", even though it appears that it may (or may not) be complete.
I haven't used it much, maybe 6 times, and 2 of the times it's had these catastrophic problems I'm talking about. I'm going to switch to another solution. I was considering rclone (like I mentioned) or Crashplan, ironically.
I could never contemplate uploading 100s of Mb each day with my crappy ADSL2+
I my backup server uses rsnapshot and you can only log into it with ssh + key + OTP.
3-2-1 rule. I would use time machine capsule and periodically (weekly?) connect an encrypted external drive and Borg backup there. Next week a second drive, third week the first one... Always keep one of this drive off-site. This is just one of many options how to get reasonably safe (I use an almost this one just deja-dup instead of time machine.)
I also use deja-dup but lately it seems to choke when trying to determine what to back up (I have about 175 GB of files, which doesn't seem outrageous). Have you had any issues with the speed? It could be that I have a long history saved on my backup drive and it's trying to apply too many incremental diffs.
I use Arq ( https://www.arqbackup.com ) with Amazon Drive (unlimited data for $60/year) for this
Additionally, I run Backblaze and use Carbon Copy Cloner roughly once a week back to clone my entire drive to an external drive.
For personal servers I use borg with the same reduced rsync.net pricing.
I use borg[0] to create local space efficient encrypted backups and rclone[1] to mirror the archives to Google Drive. I wrote a short script to automate it and schedule it to run every night. [0] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ [1] https://rclone.org
At home, rsync to NAS and ZFS snapshots.