A plug for Box Backup... [LWN.net]

A plug for Box Backup...

Posted Nov 30, 2007 3:21 UTC (Fri) by knobunc (subscriber, #4678)
Parent article: How The Backup Process Has Changed

A friend and I are both relatively well-connected by the same ISP so we wanted to cross-backup
to each other's houses.

The requirements were:
 - Automated
 - Preservation of older versions
 - Encrypted
 - Gentle to the network
 - Able to back up large amounts of data

The nasty one to find was the encryption solution, but Box Backup (http://www.boxbackup.org/)
has been performing decently well.

Dirvish looked interesting, but the backup runs appeared to need a large amount of disk or
memory to run.  Please correct me if I am wrong.

-ben

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Dirvish memory use

Posted Dec 2, 2007 0:10 UTC (Sun) by fmyhr (subscriber, #14803) [Link]

I haven't seen Dirvish use large temporary files during backup, if that's what you mean. And I
haven't noticed problems with memory usage, though I'll admit I'm not 100% sure how to measure
that.

You mention encryption. That doesn't need to be built into the backup software. In the past
I've used stunnel with dirvish, which worked ok. Now I'd probably use openvpn.

Dirvish memory use

Posted Dec 8, 2007 2:10 UTC (Sat) by roelofs (subscriber, #2599) [Link]

You mention encryption. That doesn't need to be built into the backup software.

It does if there's a chance you and your buddy will cease to be such at some point in the future. Or let's make it even easier: do you trust everybody your buddy trusts in his/her house? No? OK, then.

Greg