Backup Software Puns

I just build my first UnRAID server (backup server), and will build a second, main server, in the next couple days after my drives arrive. I want to back up Docker app data and VMs, along with selective files running the on Main server to the Backup server. I’m look at true backup solutions that I can do point in time recovery on. Looking at options, both Duplicati and Duplicacy look promising, would these be the most popular options? I’m looking for something truly set and forget, and ideally something that would alert me to issues.

Also looking for a client that I can use with my Raspberry Pi (diet pi), so bonus points if I can just use one pice of software, rather than learning two different applications.

Can I check, are both of these solutions ‘push’ style backup solutions, where I install the client on the main server and push the backup to a share on the backup server, or have I understood that incorrectly?

I have no other backup requirements, my Mac’s are backing up to the Backup server already with Time Machine.

TIA

Hi, I need some advice.

My wife owns an small business (she's a lawyer). Nowadays, she uses a Nextcloud server to synchronize her data, in order to be able to work from home if needed. Her PC runs on Windows 10

I find that's ok regarding availability, but now I need to build her a 3-2-1 backup system, for security. I was thinking on this :

1. Local storage on PC

2. Local backup storage on external drive

3. Cloud backup storage on the same server that is nowadays running the nextcloud instance.

I am searching for a good backup software, that enables to :

- Create full and incremental backups

- Backup only one folder (she works mainly with word documents and PDFs, so I dont need to backup the entire disk)

- Schedule backups

- Save backups in external drive and remote server.

- Is simple to configure

- Preferably open source

By now I found Areca (simple but not maintained since 2015), UrBackup (seems ok but I would like to avoid the server/client architecture) and Bareos (same as UrBackup).

So a question arises to me. Which is the best option? Is it better to just stick to a commercial solution (I am thinking on WD Book drive with its own software or any other alternative)

Thanks for your advice!

Is there any software (paid or free) that can back up the one plus phone and restore it as it is something like what iPhone does?

I'm trying to plan a backup system for my Windows desktop computer and would like something where the NAS can pull backup data from my desktop instead of the desktop writing to the NAS. This way, if my desktop is compromised, it can't mess up the NAS if the desktop doesn't have write access to the NAS (at least where the backups are stored). I want something that can create either a full or interval backup as a single file daily and save it either to a shared folder on the Windows machine or NAS. The NAS will then move it to where the backups are stored on the NAS.

I prefer open source software so I know I can always recover the data even if I lose the software license or something like that. Ideally this software would also work on Linux and Mac but I can use other tools if necessary on those platforms. I'm currently looking at Bacula.

What do you think about this strategy? I'm going to build a TrueNAS NAS and eventually a second one to keep at a friend's place for offsite backup.

Is there a backup program for Windows that satisfies the following requirements:

1. Capable of doing eternal incremental backup
2. Backup must be in native format
3. It should be possible to preserve file permissions

I just can't find anything that meets all these requirements.

Is there any file backup software that matches these criteria:

• Made for Windows (also, no Cygwin stuff)
• Open source
• GUI
• Made for local backups (no web GUI, hosting, cloud storage, etc.)
• File versioning (e.g., restoring to previous version of file)
• No encryption (or at least optional)
• Deduplication (i.e., can spot renames and moves and avoid duplicating them)
• Doesn't transform the data into a different filetype (like Veeam does)

I've spent quite a while tonight trying to find one that matches these criteria, but every one of the usual recommendations seems to fail at least one of them. Surely there's one somewhere?

I checked out Timeshift but I wasn't able to confirm it restore everything. I'd spent countless hours setting up my system just the way I like and I'd love to back it up for when I inevitably break it.

I use 4x5tb external easystores, 2x2tb for backup, and one 6tb as backup

Looking to automatically backup any changes to the externals so I don't have to copy/paste new stuff manually. I plan on doing this once a month or so, so I don't need anything that's constantly running.

My data isn't really static, I tend to move stuff around/mess with metadata every so often.

Any ideas? Thanks guys (:

Edit: thanks again, got some good options to research to decide which one suits me best, exactly what I needed thank youuuu

For example duplicati just lists the names of files in a snapshot. Unlike File history which shows previews.

And it would be plus if it has encryption and is free.

What backup software do you recommend paid or free? What do you use? The only thing I'm avoiding in the software is a mandatory subscription. I don't really like yearly paid updates some companies do too cause that's technically a subscription but since it's not mandatory to use the software I'm open to the idea.

Particularly I am looking for a backup software for Windows 11 but major ups if it can be used for multiple platforms so I don't have to buy or learn multiple pieces of software to help my family.

Some software I found on my own are:
AOMEI Backupper
O&O DiskImage 17
Todo Backup (EaseUS)
Arq Backup

So, I'm looking for a good, versatile, windows backup software. I want something that has a good UI(No ads for a "premium" version) and regular backups. Both full and incremental are fine, as long as there is a clear way of restoring all data in the event of a main drive failure.

Does anyone have any suggestions? If you do, thanks! If not, let's hope you can find one with me here!

Until now I used Ease US Todo Backup, but now it let me down twice (Backup Files broken, program crashing when trying to apply a backup)

So I am searching for a new software which backups the whole drive. If possible it should work on WinXP.

Thanks

Hi which software with good GUI you guys recommend me as a personal backup solution to backup all my files on my google drive and amazon s3.

thank you

Hello everyone,

Looking for something that will do the following:

• Image-based backups
• Use of our own cloud/datacenter servers for storage
• Easy to use dashboard
• Affordable
• Needs to be able to use our existing servers/BCDRs.

The following are out of the question at this time:

• Datto
• Solarwinds
• Storagecraft

Currently looking into Unitrends and Veeam. Haven't gotten anywhere with Veeam though. It has taken a week and only got a "Discovery" callback Monday to ask questions on what we are looking for. So, probably not gonna go with Veeam at this point if they can't just have a standard backup that I can buy and setup.

**Editted to include on-prem/self-provided hardware.

EDIT: Since most of the recommendations here did not even come close to a solution for my problem i kept digging and found a promising software. Its called "UrBackup" and is an open source Server/Client backup software that can do more than veeam or macrium in the free version and it allows full backups over the internet if you are interested in that.

Hello everyone,

so I got myself a 4TB NAS drive for my home server because I want to start keeping backups of my PC.

Right now I just use some free software on my PC to backup to the server (like veeam, macriumRefelct or others) however to me it is pretty inconvenient not being able to shut down the pc when I want to and remembering to power it on when the backup is supposed to start.

Is there maybe some free server solution I could install on the home server to take a backup of my PC? Would be great if it starts the job when the PC in on and just pauses when I shut it down so it can continue next day when the PC is on again.

Basically I want something that ran like Crashplan did - every once in a while it periodically wakes up and backups changes to the file system. I don't know what this feature is called so that I can look for it.

I've been testing through a large stack of backup software options, but it's kind of tedious to try them out without knowining what the feature is called. For example Paragon Community does "full backup once a week, then daily incremental/differential". This doesn't seem to be what I want, but I don't know what this is called either so that I can avoid it, or whether the paid version fixes it. The last full backup I ran with different software took 2 days to complete, so that would mean 2 days out of every week running full backups.

For background, I am on Windows, I have about 2 TB of photos that I would like to backup to a USB drive on a router. I was using ReadyShare Vault before it went discontinued, but it was problematic as well so I was avoiding Genie9. For the time being, I'm using Seagate Toolkit and backing up to a local drive (it can't do network backups and I want to avoid the connected drive ransomware risk). I don't mind buying backup software license but I don't want to buy a subscription and not considering cloud backups for now.

I inherited a site that uses quite a bit of custom software for their machines. Of course not much documentation on how to install the software or even where the installation files are located. On top of that the installation and set up of the software can be tricky.

I'm trying to figure out what the best way would be to set up a "backup" or a backup image.

If one the machines that I'm supporting fails this will case me problems in future so I'm thinking about this ahead of time.

Hi all,

Currently at work we use Quest (formerly Appassure) to take images of the several computers for backup purposes. If any of you have ever worked with Quest you will know my pain. It is a maintenance nightmare. There are always issues with computers being un-linked to the core and the storage requirements are pretty sizable.

I'm looking to add something to my lab, with the goal of moving away from Quest at work, that will take periodic images of computers and servers. Ideally this would have a lot of similarities to Quest just minus the insane maintenance.

1. It should be able to take recovery images that can be mounted virtually to access files or used to reinstall on a corrupted computer.
2. I would like to have the ability to replicate the archive off site though the solution to this part may be a separate piece of software.
3. Most importantly it should be lower maintenance than I currently have, Im tired of having to re-add computers every week just for it to work....

I'm currently only looking to use this on my computer, my wife's laptop, an my MC server VM to test it out and learn the system. My office is 4 server VMs and14 desktops but I don't think that will be a big deal to set that up later on.

G'day,

After backup software package that will backup a device (can be Win10 or WinSvr) directly to an offsite server over the WAN (no VPN). The offsite server can also be Win10 or WinSvr).

Hello. I need some help :(

I tried to find answer in google, but failed. Some things does not support linux (macrium), some does not not do sync (like duplicati/duplicity).

What I want to solve:

I have PC at work (kubuntu), PC at home (windows), also work PC at home (kubuntu too). I want solution, which allow me to:

1. Synchronize files bettween all my computers, which include documents, notes, sources codes, configurations, and other many little things which 'form' working space, and which I need on all of my computers in actual state (with ofcourse some delay or manual resync allowed). Not a big size, maybe 30-40 GB.

2. Back up everything from (1), with versioning. So if I somehow wipe out all the things, I have an option to delete it. Versioning I need for situations where files can be corrupted. Hashed by virus, for example. Big plus if each client can store versions individualy, so if main server (which will be one of such computers on a separate HDD) somehow got corrupted, I lose nothing. If there is no solution which can keep versions on client, well I can accept that and do create an cloud backup from one of my machines.

3. Back up ~400GB of multimedia. With Versioning for same reasons.

I think, you guys, must have an recipe for this. Maybe more than one tool? One for synchronization one for backups? I also hope there is solution which can be used as 'install configure forget' solutions.

I'm trying to plan a backup system for my Windows desktop computer and would like something where the NAS can pull backup data from my desktop instead of the desktop writing to the NAS. This way, if my desktop is compromised, it can't mess up the NAS if the desktop doesn't have write access to the NAS (at least where the backups are stored). I want something that can create either a full or interval backup as a single file daily and save it either to a shared folder on the Windows machine or NAS. The NAS will then move it to where the backups are stored on the NAS.

I prefer open source software so I know I can always recover the data even if I lose the software license or something like that. Ideally this software would also work on Linux and Mac but I can use other tools if necessary on those platforms. I'm currently looking at Bacula.

What do you think about this strategy? I'm going to build a TrueNAS NAS and eventually a second one to keep at a friend's place for offsite backup.

Not sure if this is a tech support question or not but it's windows related so I figured I should post here.

What backup software do you recommend paid or free? What do you use? The only thing I'm avoiding in the software is a mandatory subscription. I don't really like yearly paid updates some companies do too cause that's technically a subscription but since it's not mandatory to use the software I'm open to the idea.

Particularly I am looking for a backup software for Windows 11 but major ups if it can be used for multiple platforms so I don't have to buy or learn multiple pieces of software to help my family.

Some software I found on my own are:
AOMEI Backupper
O&O DiskImage 17
Todo Backup (EaseUS)
Arq Backup

I'm trying to plan a backup system for my Windows desktop computer and would like something where the NAS can pull backup data from my desktop instead of the desktop writing to the NAS. This way, if my desktop is compromised, it can't mess up the NAS if the desktop doesn't have write access to the NAS (at least where the backups are stored). I want something that can create either a full or interval backup as a single file daily and save it either to a shared folder on the Windows machine or NAS. The NAS will then move it to where the backups are stored on the NAS.

I prefer open source software so I know I can always recover the data even if I lose the software license or something like that. Ideally this software would also work on Linux and Mac but I can use other tools if necessary on those platforms. I'm currently looking at Bacula.

What do you think about this strategy? I'm going to build a TrueNAS NAS and eventually a second one to keep at a friend's place for offsite backup.

I'm trying to plan a backup system for my Windows desktop computer and would like something where the NAS can pull backup data from my desktop instead of the desktop writing to the NAS. This way, if my desktop is compromised, it can't mess up the NAS if the desktop doesn't have write access to the NAS (at least where the backups are stored). I want something that can create either a full or interval backup as a single file daily and save it either to a shared folder on the Windows machine or NAS. The NAS will then move it to where the backups are stored on the NAS.

I prefer open source software so I know I can always recover the data even if I lose the software license or something like that. Ideally this software would also work on Linux and Mac but I can use other tools if necessary on those platforms. I'm currently looking at Bacula.

What do you think about this strategy? I'm going to build a TrueNAS NAS and eventually a second one to keep at a friend's place for offsite backup.

G'day,

After backup software package that will backup a device (can be Win10 or WinSvr) directly to an offsite server over the WAN (no VPN). The offsite server can also be Win10 or WinSvr).