I'm tearing my hair out here, so I think I'm going to have to ditch CrashPlan and figure something else out.
Things I don't like about it:
- It eats (and leaks) memory like crazy
- Runs on Java, so very CPU intensive
- You have to run two separate dockers for the core app and the GUI
- You have to use RDC to access a virtual machine to open the GUI
- The RDC session regularly fails to connect or load, requiring restarting or even reinstalling the docker.
- Now the GUI has decided to disconnect itself and short of reinstalling everything and re-uploading 1.7TB of data I'm stuck
Yes, I need an online backup for my unRAID server - it's used as the local backup for several computers and there's stuff on there I really, really can't afford to lose to theft/fire/property damage. I don't care that it takes months to upload the initial backup seed, as everything else is incremental, but because of the sheer volume of data I need something with an unlimited storage option. Because it's on unRAID I need linux support, and because it's a home server not a business item I'd like to keep cost reasonable.
CrashPlan did seem to be ideal, but it's so damned flaky that it's just not a viable ongoing option for me. And so my question to the community is this:
Can anyone recommend me an alternative solution? I'm even tempted to resort to buying a big USB drive and rsyncing the critical stuff, then storing it in a fire-proof safe or something, but an online solution would be so much neater...
Thanks in advance!
Nick