Dito
New Around Here
Hi all. This is my first post here, after being a long-time reader.
I need some help choosing a backup system for my home LAN. I've got a mixture of computers to back up, and an unused (and slightly underpowered) PC ready to be my "server".
Here's what I need to back up:
I would really prefer an open-source solution, as I'm a strong advocate. The development partition on my laptop is for my work contributing to KDE as a junior developer. I've learned the hard way not to mix a development environment with your daily work. The variant of Tumbleweed that's in that partition gets nightly updates direct from git, so it can be unstable.
Ideally, I'd like one backup system that has clients for all three operating systems. I've got enough home sysadmin tasks keeping this network alive. Another factor, and I don't mean this in a derogatory way, but it has to automated and unobtrusive for my wife's Macbook. She doesn't want to monkey around with rsync scripts and things like that.
I've looked at Bacula and Bareos, but they're a little over-the-top in terms of setup and configuration. It's not that I couldn't figure it out, but it seems like overkill.
I've attempted to get BackupPC running, but it's a damned hassle setting up and exchanging SSH keys between various users and machines.
I don't really want a "snapshot" system like BackInTime, because there doesn't seem to be anything that's available for all the OS's I need to maintain.
I'd like something with a web interface so I can keep an eye on what's happening and know that backups are happening as they should. And if it can do simple restores over the web UI, that would be great.
I've got some unused drives I can add to the machine via USB 3 - I just ordered a dual enclosure yesterday, It's just an enclosure, not a NAS device.
Well, there's my dilemma. I've been working at this for a week or more, trying to decide on something and/or trying to get something running.
I'd really appreciate some suggestions from the collective wisdom of the SNB community.
Thanks for reading.
-Dito
EDIT: I'm not opposed to loading a proper "server" version of an OS on the backup machine (as opposed to a standard wokstation distribution) if it makes things any easier.
I need some help choosing a backup system for my home LAN. I've got a mixture of computers to back up, and an unused (and slightly underpowered) PC ready to be my "server".
Here's what I need to back up:
- My main laptop (Lenovo Y720), with three separate bootable partitions (2x 1TB SSDs):
- Manjaro Linux (my daily driver)
- openSUSE Tumbleweed (for development)
- Win10 for BIOS update and Steam games
- A desktop PC running Ubuntu 18.04, serving media (2TB storage drive)
- My wife's Macbook Air (256GB SSD)
- My own Macbook Pro (750GB SSD)
- Another, older laptop, again with Manjaro (1 TB SSD)
I would really prefer an open-source solution, as I'm a strong advocate. The development partition on my laptop is for my work contributing to KDE as a junior developer. I've learned the hard way not to mix a development environment with your daily work. The variant of Tumbleweed that's in that partition gets nightly updates direct from git, so it can be unstable.
Ideally, I'd like one backup system that has clients for all three operating systems. I've got enough home sysadmin tasks keeping this network alive. Another factor, and I don't mean this in a derogatory way, but it has to automated and unobtrusive for my wife's Macbook. She doesn't want to monkey around with rsync scripts and things like that.
I've looked at Bacula and Bareos, but they're a little over-the-top in terms of setup and configuration. It's not that I couldn't figure it out, but it seems like overkill.
I've attempted to get BackupPC running, but it's a damned hassle setting up and exchanging SSH keys between various users and machines.
I don't really want a "snapshot" system like BackInTime, because there doesn't seem to be anything that's available for all the OS's I need to maintain.
I'd like something with a web interface so I can keep an eye on what's happening and know that backups are happening as they should. And if it can do simple restores over the web UI, that would be great.
I've got some unused drives I can add to the machine via USB 3 - I just ordered a dual enclosure yesterday, It's just an enclosure, not a NAS device.
Well, there's my dilemma. I've been working at this for a week or more, trying to decide on something and/or trying to get something running.
I'd really appreciate some suggestions from the collective wisdom of the SNB community.
Thanks for reading.
-Dito
EDIT: I'm not opposed to loading a proper "server" version of an OS on the backup machine (as opposed to a standard wokstation distribution) if it makes things any easier.