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From: myemail.an on 2 Apr 2008 09:51
Hi all,

do you know of any online backup service that would work with Linux?
An equivalent of Windows' Mozy, for instance.

Thanks!
From: Chris on 2 Apr 2008 11:02
myemail.an(a)googlemail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> do you know of any online backup service that would work with Linux?
> An equivalent of Windows' Mozy, for instance.

Xdrive specifically supports Linux, but others may do too indirectly as
long as you can access your data without using their fancy GUI clients.

I have looked at these in the past, but found the download limitations
to be quite limiting e.g. 1Gb/month
From: myemail.an on 2 Apr 2008 11:22

> Xdrive specifically supports Linux, but others may do too indirectly as
> long as you can access your data without using their fancy GUI clients.
>
> I have looked at these in the past, but found the download limitations
> to be quite limiting e.g. 1Gb/month

Hoe exactly does Xdrive work in Linu? Their website mentions Linux
support but no further detail.
Is there a Linux app running in the background? Or are users supposed
to upload all the data manually via a web browser or ftp?
Specifically, I'd like a solution which automatically recognizes which
file have changed.
From: Whiskers on 2 Apr 2008 14:20
On 2008-04-02, myemail.an(a)googlemail.com <myemail.an(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Xdrive specifically supports Linux, but others may do too indirectly as
>> long as you can access your data without using their fancy GUI clients.
>>
>> I have looked at these in the past, but found the download limitations
>> to be quite limiting e.g. 1Gb/month
>
> Hoe exactly does Xdrive work in Linu? Their website mentions Linux
> support but no further detail.
> Is there a Linux app running in the background? Or are users supposed
> to upload all the data manually via a web browser or ftp?
> Specifically, I'd like a solution which automatically recognizes which
> file have changed.

"Xdrive" seemes to be an AOL service, so I'd be surprised if their
software worked with Linux. But if you can 'sign up' for an AOL 'SCreen
name' using Linux then I suppose the "5GB of free space" might well be
accessible using normal Linux tools, via ftp or http even if not by rsync,

The standard Linux tool rsync is the way to update only the changes
between two copies of a file or directory; cron is the tool for doing
things according to a schedule. If you have any 'space' provided by eg
your ISP then it should be possible to design a script to automatically
upload changed files to that 'space' without needing any fancy software
from anyone :))

But I'd think twice (at least) about entrusting any of 'my stuff' to a
commercial enterprise or to any stranger. A portable external drive for
my own system or network is a much less disturbing prospect, I think.

Some distros (eg Mandriva) offer their own 'backup tools'.

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From: Richard Lamont on 2 Apr 2008 15:17
Whiskers wrote:
> On 2008-04-02, myemail.an(a)googlemail.com <myemail.an(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Xdrive specifically supports Linux, but others may do too indirectly as
>>> long as you can access your data without using their fancy GUI clients.
>>>
>>> I have looked at these in the past, but found the download limitations
>>> to be quite limiting e.g. 1Gb/month
>> Hoe exactly does Xdrive work in Linu? Their website mentions Linux
>> support but no further detail.
>> Is there a Linux app running in the background? Or are users supposed
>> to upload all the data manually via a web browser or ftp?
>> Specifically, I'd like a solution which automatically recognizes which
>> file have changed.
>
> "Xdrive" seemes to be an AOL service, so I'd be surprised if their
> software worked with Linux. But if you can 'sign up' for an AOL 'SCreen
> name' using Linux then I suppose the "5GB of free space" might well be
> accessible using normal Linux tools, via ftp or http even if not by rsync,
>
> The standard Linux tool rsync is the way to update only the changes
> between two copies of a file or directory; cron is the tool for doing
> things according to a schedule. If you have any 'space' provided by eg
> your ISP then it should be possible to design a script to automatically
> upload changed files to that 'space' without needing any fancy software
> from anyone :))
>
> But I'd think twice (at least) about entrusting any of 'my stuff' to a
> commercial enterprise or to any stranger. A portable external drive for
> my own system or network is a much less disturbing prospect, I think.

Duplicity seems like a good bet for secure off-site backups. It does the
incremental diffs with rsync, puts the results into 5MB tarballs,
encrypts them (symmetrically) with GnuPG and shunts them wherever you
like with scp, ftp or a variety of other protocols.


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