Posted by Robert G Laurin on July 13, 2012 at 07:46:23:
In Reply to: Next generation backup considerations posted by Keith Smith on July 12, 2012 at 22:36:02:
My client uses a Linux based backup solution called BackupPC. It backup every servers (Linux & Windows) to local storage (6 TB). It keeps a minimum of 2 full backups and 6 incremental backups in between.
To make it more secure, we rsync (over ssh) this server to another computer in a co-location at a local data-center. It is impressive how efficient it is on space. The complete backup sets (2 full + incrementals)is just over 1.2TB for over 2TB of servers storage. The over the internet synchronization ran daily uses less than a terabyte of bandwidth monthly.
Each file can be a maximum of 1MB in length Uploaded files will be purged from the server on a regular basis.