I continued to try to make Raspberry Pi with CrashPlan a viable backup server, but after running it for a few days and looking for various ways to make it more robust, I've decided to give up on this and run CrashPlan along with a few other services on a baby server. Explanation follows.....
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Thursday, 2 January 2014
Sunday, 8 December 2013
raspberry pi as a backup machine
Various things recently (not least cryptolocker and a *much* faster internet connection with an upgrade to ftc) made me start thinking about getting better organised at backups. I currently have around 2Tb of photos (on windows), lots of music (mostly recoverable from CDs) on linux and random other stuff.
With Raspberry pi idling at around 2 watts, using a huge disc on a headless pi as a backup point for the whole house seems an attractive option, and could act as a staging point for offsite backup as well (I've now got >10Mb upload speed, so trickling up at say 5Mb would get through a lot of data in a day).
After a bit of digging around, CrashPlan looks like the best option, so below are notes on first steps to getting CrashPlan going.
(note I am continuing to use CrashPlan, but running on an x86 box, rather than pi - see this post for explanation)
With Raspberry pi idling at around 2 watts, using a huge disc on a headless pi as a backup point for the whole house seems an attractive option, and could act as a staging point for offsite backup as well (I've now got >10Mb upload speed, so trickling up at say 5Mb would get through a lot of data in a day).
After a bit of digging around, CrashPlan looks like the best option, so below are notes on first steps to getting CrashPlan going.
(note I am continuing to use CrashPlan, but running on an x86 box, rather than pi - see this post for explanation)
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