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What Backup Software Do YOU Use?

shovenose

shovenose

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Verified Provider
cPremote is such a piece of crap, it sometimes works, but it's not consistent, has a horrible interface, it's buggy, support is useless, and I think we can do better.

I found this:

https://r1softlicenses.com/order

It's about $8/mo/server, which is fantastic.

If I could use that same software to back up the OVZ node(s) that would be cool. I'm fairly certain they have a cPanel plugin for the customer to use to manage their backups and restores, as far as the shared server(s). But I would also like to know, is this software good for restoring an entire server should one of our RAID arrays take a dump?

If not R1Soft, what does everybody else here use? I'm hoping to get this implemented ASAP, so I don't have to renew cPremote.

Thanks,

Michael
 
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MCH-Phil

MCH-Phil

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I personally have no issues with cpremote and use it across both locations I offer web hosting at this time, with no need or want to change.  It just works, for me.

Currently my OpenVZ offering is backed up with Bacula and I supported the Bacula guys to bring Bacula4Hosts to SolusVM and KVM.  Great product.  Just not where I'm going at this time with things.  I will not be rolling out Bacula for KVM VPS due to per VM licensing.  Even with the special pricing I was offered due to before mentioned fact.  Great people the Bacula guys and gals.

Otherwise, I use SolusVM ftp backup to handle backing up customer VM's and have not had much an issue.  Other then time to completion.

Also, I personally feel it is so trivial to bring a node / server back online that most of the time the OS needs no backup.  
 
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Francisco

Francisco

Company Lube
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r1soft is so brutally heavy on server.

It's nice because a user can auto restore their stuff but yea.

Francisco
 
MannDude

MannDude

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Francisco said:
r1soft is so brutally heavy on server.
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Also not super duper fantastic to manage or deal with when things don't work as intended. But when it does work, it's pretty neat. Just hope you like clicking around a heavy interface.

I just use a little backup script that I'm working on. It just rsyncs data to a remote server on a schedule. No restore feature. It works though.
 
mikho

mikho

Not to be taken seriously, ever!
"It's backup day today so I'm pissed off. Being the BOFH, however, does have it's advantages. I reassign /dev/null to be the tape device - it's so much more economical on my time as I don't have to keep getting up to change tapes every 5 minutes. And it speeds up backups too, so it can't be all bad can it? Of course not."
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I think we need a BOFH icon


Have anyone tried Ahsay? Multi platform (java).
 
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gxbfxvar

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I am using tarsnap for my servers. Data is encrypted on client side (client code is open source) and then stored on Amazon's servers. It is pretty light weight, so you can use it also on Raspberry Pi and other low powered ARM devices.
 
dano

dano

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Bacula has been my favorite for the past few years, and before then I would rsync to a network share(messy), but didn't really rely on it for anything important.
 
shovenose

shovenose

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Bacula would work not just only for cPanel but for OpenVZ nodes as well? Does it offer a way for people to restore their VPS? Would be too cool (don't get why SolusVM doesn't do this, really is a neccessary feature). Though I think it would mainly be useful for entire node RAID failures, or if they cancel then 10 minutes later want their data back.

cPremote has the cPanel plugin for customers but it rarely works as intended - I've got more support tickets "help, backup won't restore" than "thank god you have backup, I really appreciate it!" Let me rephrase that: I don't know of a single incident where anybody was actually happy with cPremote, myself or my customer(s) included. And, it was a b*tch to set up.

Enough bashing of the useless product. But I will figure something out! Bacula4Hosts seems promising if not somewhat convoluted of a pricing scheme. Wish they offered it on LicensePal, then it would actually make sense LOL.
 
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dano

dano

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Bacula is a "file-level" backup program -- so it will go through a file system on a configured client machine and backup directories that you need(specify in server config). With bacula, you can then later on, use it to restore "etc" from a backup 6 months ago(depending on your config) to a new machine,etc. In theory, you could point it at your vm storage directory and have it pull that entire directory down to the backup server(or storage server more correctly). Unfortunately, it's not a "restore" from bare metal app really, but it will have all your files there if you tell it to grab them.

This differs from a snapshot, which is an image taken at a particular moment, or even your providers "disk image based" backup options. You should always have your own backups, as relying on a providers "disk backup" can have it's problems, where as the provider has their storage system corrupt it's data or fail and not have a good secondary copy, they my not have a up to date and valid version of your data available to restore, so running bacula to keep track of your important files is a good idea. You can even point bacula to just grab the entire root dir, if you are worried about missing something and have the disk space to store it ;)
 
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