Which Client do You Use and Why?

[knnniggett]

One great feature about Datastorageunit is it's open-source, non-
proprietary approach to client software. On the other hand, this
presents the new user with a bit of a learning curve to determine
which of the many potential clients will best fit that person's needs.

I think it would be helpful to me and others if existing users could
provide feedback stating which client they prefer to use and why that
particular client works best for them.

[BP]

You're right - I love the open nature of DSU. When given a choice I
would always prefer something based on open standards and not
requiring use of any one particular client. That said, I just mount
DSU as a mount point in Linux using SFTP. I would love if there was
an ability to do auto synchronization along the lines of UbuntuOne or
something. I just haven't had the time to look into it.

[Kris]

I use LFTP with the mirror command, once I have the bulk uploaded, I
should be able to just backup differences.
it would be great If I could somehow use rsync.

[MoneyMan]

I have been using Bueasy.... It runs on my linux box that I use as a
server in my home network. I mount shares on my my other machines
using samba, then have two cron jobs that run bueasy at night. (one
runs nightly copying data to datastorage unit, the other runs once a
week making a local backup copy) It backs up the mounted shares,
along with some other directories.

With the 'only copy new' files, it does not have to recopy all my data
everynight, only the items that have changed. It does seem to hang on
VERY large file transfers, but once the bulk of the files were
transfered it has run well.

[knnniggett]

Excellent feedback guys.

BP - Thanks for pointing out that one can simply mount their DSU
storage as a local mount point. I had not thought of that. After
Googling for the details last night, I successfully installed the
sshfs tools and mounted my DSU account to my Ubuntu desktop. It
worked without a hitch.

Kris - Are you concerned that you data sits on the remote server
unencrypted? Also, BP's method of mounting your DSU account should
allow you to run rsync.

MoneyMan - I have not heard of Bueasy. I'll definitely read up on
that.

[jeanmarc]

Hello,

I'm gonna use "Déjà Dup", it is a really convenient back end of
duplicity.

Pros :
It is really easy to setup
It securely encrypts and compresses data
Permit scheduled backups
Allow incremental archives with space efficient (only record the parts
of files that have changed since the last)

Con :
Only work with Linux

Overall it have more pros than cons for me ;)

https://launchpad.net/deja-dup

bye

[bb]

Just wanted to second your (jeanmarc) post...
I'm a big fan of Duplicuty (http://www.nongnu.org/duplicity/). It's really flexible. Unfortunately Flexible == Complex. But I still like it. Fortunately Deja-Dup is a mind bogglingly simple front end for Duplicity.

[Peter Heitman]

I use several clients. On my ubuntu-based file server I use sshfs and
encfs on top of sshfs. I have one mount point for my home directory on
datastorageunit and another mount point for the encrypted directory/
file system that I have under that. It works transparently. I then use
rsync to backup my desired directories on to the encfs mount. On my
Windows machines I use Swish to access the non-encrypted parts of my
home directory. I've been really happy with this setup for a long
time. The one thing I'd like is to replace dropbox with a service that
uses datastorageunit as the backing store. That would be really cool!