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Linux Backup Services

Amazon S3 
Pricing

$0.14/GB per month, $0.09/GB per Mo for ‘reduced redundancy’, $.10/GB data transfer, plus $.01/10K data requests (for upload or download).  Check pricing for current rates, they have been changing.


One user suggested Linux client can be found at http://s3tools.org/s3cmd

iBackup

$10/Mo for 10GB, uses rsync through stunnel.  Specials & prepay discounts seem to be normally available.

JungleDisk

$2 per Mo + storage on S3 or RackSpace … iPhone/iPad client available

Spider Oak

2GB free, $10/Mo per 100GB, backup, sharing, sync solutions

SafeCopy

$50/Yr for 200GB (Their Linux beta program is currently full)

Dropbox

2GB free, $10/Mo for 50GB
Focus on file sharing.  Not exactly backup, but this add-in allows  
printing from anywhere via Dropbox

SparkleShare.org

OpenSource type of system, will be cross platform.  Currently Linux and Mac (6/2011).

Ubuntu One

2GB free, $10/Mo for 50GB, sync, music store, also Android, iPhone, Mac, Windows beta client available

Wuala

1GB free, @39/Yr for 10GB, has intersting option of ‘free’ aditional storage if you share YOUR storage.  Sounds good if you have a full time online machine at home with extra storage. (4/2011)

rsync.net

$0.80/GB per month down to $0.32/GB per month, no minimum, developer, educational, etc discounts available.  Educational/student discount is 50% off published rates.

I asked about discount for being in a Linux Users group or Maker group, they appear to be willing to extend educational discounts to these people (non-commercial use I am sure).

CrashPlan

Plans

Software is free for personal use, you can use your disk space on the same or networked machine, or a friends if they share the security key, or their cloud disks for a fee. There is a pay for client available for commercial or personal use that runs without adds, allows ‘continuous backup’.  Both clients are available on Winders, Mac, and Linux (I use it on Ubuntu 10.04, WinXP and Vista all over our local wireless network).  Good for data backup, but not bare metal restores.  Runs service / daemon on the background and handles scheduled backups.

Egnyte

Plans

20G for $10/mo if paid annually, otherwise $15/mo.  2 backup client licenses.  Other/larger subscriptions are available.  Not bad but apparently aimed at businesses.

TKLBAM

A backup server you can run or run on Amazon to backup your systems to the Amazon cloud.  It will run on your hardware too.  Turnkey Linux is free.  3/2011 Amazon has a small server in their cloud available for free to use however you wish, including as a Turnkey Linux Backup server.  You still pay for bandwidth and storage.  After 1 year, you pay for the server too.

Many vendors have discount for annual pre-payment.  Typically $10/mo will be about $100/yr for same storage.

Linux Backups to S3 has a detailed description of how to do backups from Linux/Unix to S3.  Article seems to be being kept up to date.

Backup Central has a chapter of Backup & Recovery on bear metal restore online.

Full Disclosure: I used to work with Curtis Preston who wrote this book & owns backupcentral.com in a former employment life.

Boston Linux Users Group did presentations in August 2010 on Linux Backups:

Weasel Words: All information is a best efforts.  Check with vendors for current information.

22 June 2011