Slightly drifting off the topic focus, but this fellow's solution was to build his own cloud server with less that $300 worth of hardware and $1500 worth of disks. Not counting power costs, this is going to run around $30 a month for 5 years (assuming all the hardware is zero at 60 months). You have the problem, of course, that whereever the storag ends up is in danger of fire, floods, catastrophes and unavailability.
http://blog.quindorian.org/2017/08/diy-cloud-backup-replacing-crashplan-home-family-diy-style.html/ On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Kevin Cully <kcu...@cullytechnologies.com> wrote: > I'm looking for a new offsite backup solution. I've been a longtime > Crashplan user and one thing I love about it is the summary reports I > receive by email. I can see when my son's computer was backed up last when > he's away at college. Same for my parents. Yes, I have called them to > restart their Crashplan backup service if they haven't been backed up for 3 > days or so. Unfortunately, Crashplan is ending their Home service and their > Business service is too expensive to continue with. > > I've even started writing my own backup program in Xojo to duplicate the > Crashplan functionality but I'm stumbling on the cross-platform (must be > Win, Mac and Linux) file encryption part. It gets complicated when deciding > how to approach backing up large files such as video files. In all of my > spare time, right? I'd rather buy, and create in this case. If I use the > DigitialOcean S3 service, I think my expense will be $10-$12 per month to > back up 5 computers. That's about the right price point. I just need to > stop this sleeping habit I've had. > > Do you know if Duplicati has a reporting feature as I described above? > > -Kevin > > > On 12/09/2017 12:55 AM, mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote: >> >> https://www.duplicati.com/ >> >> Anybody ever heard of this? I see one of my competitors is using this >> software to backup and send things offsite, including a VFP app's foxpro >> table/index/memo files (even while a user has tables open). >> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4tVAJp+o2RyzJ3PLYu1OcqrvcpkJtP=bbfapnvk9h-...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
