Re: [tlug] Further adventures in stability and security: backups

[Dave M G <dave@example.com>]

Romeo, Joe,

Thank you guys for responding, and for the tips on Duplicity and rsyncrypto.

Turns out Ubuntu has a pretty nice GUI front end for duplicity called 
"Deja Dup". From what I read, it might become their more or less 
"official", or at least de facto, back up utility for Ubuntu. After I 
checked it out a bit, I felt comfortable that it could keep my data 
secure enough.

I looked at some other online back up services, but a lot of them 
required that you download their software for running the back ups, and 
most were not available for Linux. Out of the remainders, 
onlinestoragesolution offered the best price. Where they lack is 
support. You can use whatever software you want to back up to them, but 
you're mostly on your own to figure out how.

However, with the Deja Dup interface, it wasn't to hard to set up an FTP 
connection. I might get around to setting up SSH tunnelling, but since 
the data I'm sending is encrypted, I'm not too worried.

I'm sending my first backup now. After it's done, I'll let it run 
automatically for a week and see what it's like to restore it later. 
Deja Dup's most frequent backup option is once a day, but that should 
suffice.

Bring on the asteroids.

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Dave M G