![]() Otherwise, you may not have a site to recover. Let’s hope your webhost provider has got it right. The advantage of webhost provider based backups is that it’s a complicated matter that you don’t have to worry about. The drawback for the webhost provider based backups is that backup and recovery for YOUR site is now out of your hands. Many web site administrators will either rely on their web host provider to perform these backups and/or implement a backup plug-in for their CMS of choice. With the exception of the static sites, these ALL run in databases and invariably they ALL need to be backed up, files and databases included. ![]() I’ve implemented web sites of varying types, including: When it comes to backups, you can never have too many. Oh, and I’m also running Crashplan as a backup of last resort. It also does so at a MUCH faster clip with the new gigabit switch. ![]() ![]() Syncovery synchronizes the Photo, Music and Video directories to the CentOS server via SFTP for use by the Plex media server. One of the advantages of the custom configuration is that I can tell it to purge old backups when the destination drive gets full. Fortunately for me, that was not a requirement and as a result, Cloudberry was off the table.Īcronis now performs custom daily/weekly backups of drive C and drive D to drive Z as well as to the CentOS server via SFTP. In order for me to purchase Cloudberry, Acronis Backup/Recovery had to fail in some significant fashion and the only weakness I could see with Acronis (other than the fact that it’s huge), was that the version of Acronis I own does not support Cloud Services. I have a client that uses it and it’s a good product. This product performs backups to various local and Cloud services and worked very well. This package had great reviews, however the simplistic interface was not for me. One of the main reasons was that using the catalog for file recovery was easier to use than the alternatives. After significant testing, I decided to update it and use it for backups. I already own this product, so I spent time determining if I wanted to continue using it or replace it with an alternate. Maybe I’ll use it for full backups down the road once it gains my trust. I ended up buying a copy of this to use strictly for synchronization with the new media server. This product costs about the same as Syncback Pro, but does support block level backups, as well as file/directory synchronization. In order to Synchronize to the CentOS server via the more secure SFTP, I needed to purchase Syncback Pro (and not SE).īeing about same price, the block level support of Syncovery put it ahead of Syncback Pro. It does not support block level backups, which I felt were important with the number of Virtual Machines I’m using. There are several versions of this product, and Syncback free has allowed me to backup across SMB shares without any problems in the past. So, let’s look at each of the packages I tried. It also turns out that dedicated backup software such as Acronis or Cloudberry don’t really support that functionality. I just wanted a source and destination synchronization of my media directories. In this case, I didn’t want incrementals or the ability to restore an old version. It slowly dawned on me that when performing occasional full backups with Syncback, what I really wanted to do was to perform file synchronization.
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