[Discuss] On-site backups revisited - rsnapshot vs. CrashPlan

[Rich Pieri]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:40:15 -0800
"Rich Braun" <richb at pioneer.ci.net> wrote:

> I haven't yet found a suitable replacement for CrashPlan
> (peer-to-peer) off the shelf, but here's the strategy I'm using going
> forward:

Both ZFS and Btrfs do most of what you need more or less automatically.
Incremental staging can be managed with snapshots. Checksums are
automatically calculated by the file system drivers. Checksum
validation and repair happens automatically on read assuming redundant
data storage and can be invoked manually or from cron with the scrub
tools.

> * Make a tool that makes it more obvious to me whether a given local
>   directory or computer is being backed up

This is independent of the storage backend. How to go about this
depends on how you go about replicating live file systems to the
storage server.

-- 
Rich P.