Father_Redbeard Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 Version 6.11.5 - I have two Macbook Pros, 3 Win10 desktops, and a handful of Android devices (phones and tablet). I am trying devise a backup strategy that will keep my most important data safe. Currently on my Win desktop, I am using iDrive to sync important files to their cloud. I don't understand this to be a viable solution when adding more data from a server like my unraid setup, so I'm looking at Backblaze B2. Both Macbook Pros are set to use Time Machine to the server using the excellent community plugin by the same name, so local copies are taken care of. I looked at Seafile for the windows seats since they have a client that can watch directories and sync with the sever so I was inclined to go that way but I'm willing to hear better options. That would give me Android and Windows file sync to the server in an automated fashion, set and forget. I have both Seafile and Duplicacy spun up and working now but can't get Duplicacy to play nice with B2 yet. But before I dive into troubleshooting that I wanted to check with the community for any flaws in my logic or tips, tricks, other suggestions. I do have Plex and all that on the server but at this point I'm only concerned with backing up the irreplicable stuff. I did search both here and over on Reddit and couldn't find this same scenario only guides and options for backing up unraid to the cloud. I'm missing the best practice for backing up to the server in the first place. Quote Link to comment
Solution JonathanM Posted May 26, 2023 Solution Share Posted May 26, 2023 17 hours ago, Father_Redbeard said: I'm missing the best practice for backing up to the server in the first place. I use UrBackup for my local workstations, and a handful of remote machines as well. It handles windows and linux clients. 1 Quote Link to comment
Michael_P Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 I use Nextcloud to sync my mobile devices to the server, UrBackup for the desktops, and rsync for server to server along with a cold grab n go HDD for the can't lose data. 1 Quote Link to comment
Father_Redbeard Posted May 26, 2023 Author Share Posted May 26, 2023 9 hours ago, JonathanM said: I use UrBackup for my local workstations Thanks for that. Was not a solution I was aware of and seems a bit better for my use case than Seafile. I did try Nextcloud and on my old hardware in particular it doesn't run very well. And also has a lot more features than I need so I uninstalled it. Quote Link to comment
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