FR: Officially switch from sysbk to Duplicity

[interfasys]

Sysbk is starting to look really dated and I think it's time to replace it.

Duplicity offers the same functionalities and adds encryption, it works with the same protocols as sysbk, but adds S3.

The sysbk script could easily be replaced with duply which is a wrapper which includes pre and post scripts (ideal for local backups and cleanup ops)

http://duplicity.nongnu.org/index.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ftplicity/

 

[nobaloney]

It looks interesting. I'm not sure too many people are using sysbk; I know I've replaced it with the DirectAdmin Admin Reseller backup. I agree that sysbk can back up lots of things that the Admin Reseller backup doesn't, but I generally make copies of those things separately.

And don't forget, depending on how you manage your back end, the RSYNC stuff may not help you; if you've moved or renamed your backup to keep it (we keep multiple backups), it's going to back up everything anyway.

That said, I like it. Anyone else?

I've added a Poll.

Jeff

 

[interfasys]

What I like, besides the encryption, is that you can create profiles and you simply need to put the folder on a new server to start restoring your data.
Profiles make it easy for people to do different things, like sending the Admin Reseller backups to a vault and syncing a few important folders with a different backup space.

 

[nobaloney]

So add your voice to the poll .

Jeff

 

[ranz]

I voted "I don't use it" - but I am most certainly going to check it out now. Thanks for the post - it's reminded me to improve the DA backups.