Data recovery and backups always seem to be painful.
I have been using crashplan on my linux and windows systems, I put a 1T
drive on one
machine and back everything up to there. Currently on sale for 3 years for
$150
Clients can backup to multiple 'destinations' (online to Crashplan, other
machines
locally or remotely, ... )
On their 'family plan', unlimited backup to their data center for any number
of machines.
And if you use their 'pay for' client, it can do 'continuous backup'. The
pay for clients are
kind of pricey, about $70 each, but for me the free clients are working
well.
And yes, it does Windows, Linux (Ubuntu is easy, that is what I am using),
and Mac.
And you can restore any file to any system (yes, an opportunity to shoot
ourselves in the
foot, but not bad).
After having done backups and restores, and disaster recovery for over 15
years commercially, this
seems to be a very user friendly and easy solution without having to pay
someone
$55/year/machine forever (not that that is bad, just to much on my budget).
I also
really like the 'cross platform' restore if needed, and the multiple
destinations.
No, I don't get a buck from them, just a happy user. Now if it was just
open source :)
Oh yea, their site: www.crashplan.com
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