Preferred and supported GUI backup software?

[Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)]

Hi all,

Peter, first of all Congratulations on an excellent piece of software
engineering. After owing a Drobo for a year As a CLI newbie I finally
took the plunge and untarred the tarball on OpenSuse 11.2. Wow the
software worked with no 'make' or 'make install'.!! :) Yes I am from a
20yr Windows back-ground.

I would like to hear Drobo users comments about their preferred and
supported GUI backup package they use to backup to the Drobo connected
to an OpenSuse 11.2 box.

Programs such as BackupPC, Bacula, Clonezilla and LuckyBackup seem to be
a few, however which, if any, are folks using.

I am by NO means saying I do not want to image or backup my system via
the cli, I just happen to prefer the pretty pictures regarding about the
progress of backup. If the cli command can give me the completed
percentage or rime remaining that's also cool.

I prefer not to use software backup compression as the 30-40Gb I need to
backup is under the 2Tb limit I set on the Drobo, asides it has physical
disk space of 1.5Tb.

What suggestions or which archive to search regarding a 4-disk Drobo
connected via USB? I have no idea if it is version 1/2 just that is is a
Drobo :)

Comments via the list or direct would be appreciated.

Regards
Hylton

[Paul Graham]

Hi Hylton,

Crashplan may be worth a look at. Whilst their cloud-backup plans cost money, it is free to use to backup to a local drive, network device, or over the web to a "friend".

It depends what you want out of your backup software. Crashplan ticked all the boxes for me (although I also use their cloud service), it has incremental backup, version retention (which is configurable in settings), configurable backup sets and schedules (eg you could backup documents folders "live", photos daily and do full system weekly, or whatever configuration you want). But if you don't need many of these features you might opt for something simpler.

I *think* the GUI client works on Linux. It's java-based afterall. If it doesn't, it is not difficult to connect a GUI client from a Windows or Mac machine to the backup service which runs on the Linux machine.

Regards,

Paul

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Hylton

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[Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)]

Hi Paul,

On 16/05/14 01:54, Paul Graham wrote:
> Hi Hylton,
>
> Crashplan may be worth a look at. Whilst their cloud-backup plans cost
> money, it is free to use to backup to a local drive, network device, or
> over the web to a "friend".
> It depends what you want out of your backup software. Crashplan ticked
> all the boxes for me (although I also use their cloud service), it has
> incremental backup, version retention (which is configurable in
> settings), configurable backup sets and schedules (eg you could backup
> documents folders "live", photos daily and do full system weekly, or
> whatever configuration you want). But if you don't need many of these
> features you might opt for something simpler.
>
> I *think* the GUI client works on Linux. It's java-based afterall. If it
> doesn't, it is not difficult to connect a GUI client from a Windows or
> Mac machine to the backup service which runs on the Linux machine.

Crashplan looked promising and so I downloaded and copied it into my
/opt folder.

Ran the tar -xzvf on it and a Crashplan-install directory was created
under /opt.

I tried executing the install.sh script and received a cnf(Command not
found) error even though I was logged in as root and working in the
Crashplan-install directory.

Thought the permissions might be an issue so changed the owner and group
to root, then re-executed the install.sh script. Still get a cnf error
:( You did say that the GUI might work and it was a nice backup idea,
but it doesn't seem to work here. Given I am a cli newbie so will take
this discussion to my OS user mailing list i.e. Opensuse.

It would be preferable if the drobo-utils allowed the ability to backup
instead of just showing the status of a Drobo.

After having a look at
<http://software.opensuse.org/package/kbackup> I decided it is time to
update the machine and use some of the new compatible apps.

Regards and thanks for the reply.

Hylton

[Paul Graham]

Hmm, maybe Crashplan only works with Debian/Ubuntu-based Linux distros, I'm not sure, I've not tried it myself on a Linux Desktop. It does however work on the versions of Linux that are installed both on DroboFS and Synology NAS products (I've run it successfully on both), but they are specially ported versions. Not sure about OpenSuse.

Good luck with getting your backup plans working. I would be interested how KBackup goes for you, just in case anyone else asks similar questions in future...

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[Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)]

Hi Paul,

On 31/05/14 15:51, Paul Graham wrote:
> Hmm, maybe Crashplan only works with Debian/Ubuntu-based Linux distros,
> I'm not sure, I've not tried it myself on a Linux Desktop. It does
> however work on the versions of Linux that are installed both on DroboFS
> and Synology NAS products (I've run it successfully on both), but they
> are specially ported versions. Not sure about OpenSuse.

Crashplan was not the answer, but being used a while ago I cannot
remember why.

I decided to get the backup onto the Drobo first by rsync cli, then
upgrade the system and install Kbackup and hopefully restore from backup
to updated /~.

> Good luck with getting your backup plans working. I would be interested
> how KBackup goes for you, just in case anyone else asks similar
> questions in future...

Tnx, I feel I am going to need it :(

I'll possibly come back to this thread much later but for the meantime
am going to start a new thread about the rsync cli needed.

Regards
Hylton

[Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)]

Hi Paul,

On 31/05/14 15:51, Paul Graham wrote:

> Hmm, maybe Crashplan only works with Debian/Ubuntu-based Linux distros,
> I'm not sure, I've not tried it myself on a Linux Desktop. It does
> however work on the versions of Linux that are installed both on DroboFS
> and Synology NAS products (I've run it successfully on both), but they
> are specially ported versions. Not sure about OpenSuse.

Crashplan was not the answer, but being used a while ago I cannot
remember why.

I decided to get the backup onto the Drobo first by rsync cli, then
upgrade the system and install Kbackup and hopefully restore from backup
to updated /~.

> Good luck with getting your backup plans working. I would be interested
> how KBackup goes for you, just in case anyone else asks similar
> questions in future...

Tnx, I feel I am going to need it