mbc0 Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 Hi, I am looking for the best way to backup my media folders? I have an HP Gen8 Microserver that I want to use to store backups of my media and need something that does real time synchronization (with file verification to newly copied files) I am interested in BTSync but I am particularly confused as to whether or not my files are being uploaded anywhere? Any advice/options greatly appreciated! Quote Link to comment
Azza666 Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Sorry for bringing am old post backup. You could use something like crash plan as you can do free computer to computer backups. But at a basic level you can just do rsync. The only worry there is verifying the backup data against the source after some time in case of bit-rot. Keeping hold of original checksums may help for that though. Quote Link to comment
testdasi Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Syncthing works without the need of console or cron job. Quote Link to comment
mbc0 Posted July 6, 2016 Author Share Posted July 6, 2016 I actually went with the crashplan docker and have not looked back! great setup :-) Quote Link to comment
testdasi Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Crashplan is a backup tool. It is not a sync tool. So they do different things that are not necessarily interchangeable. Quote Link to comment
mbc0 Posted July 6, 2016 Author Share Posted July 6, 2016 Hi, I understand that but it monitors for any changes and backs them up within a timescale of my choosing and I can specify how long I want to keep the deleted/modified files for as well so best of both worlds! works perfect! :-) Am also backing up 12TB to the unlimited online storage as well so that may take a year or so :-) Quote Link to comment
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