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Having trouble finding a good and affordable cloud backup solution for my file server (Windows2016 server).
I like the sound of Backblaze as their B2 offering is pretty affordable for the quantity of data i have, however finding a good software package to partner it with is problematic - the one I like is Duplicati but it's a little flaky (can't get HyperV backups to work though I can backup normal data and the raw VM data files) and it's still in Beta which is less than ideal for a backup regime.
I run a Ubuntu and Windows server VMs with HyperV on the same server which I currently back up to an old NAS using Altaro free version so something to take care of VM backups in the same package would be good.
I'm not averse to paying a reasonable (under £100) one-off fee for software and Arq seems to work ok but I don't like the lack of configuration in the Windows GUI version (no option for weekly backups, only daily at maximum).
Requirements:
Cloud backup of local file shares
Cloud backup of hosted HyperV VM
Scheduling
GUI or web interface
At the moment it looks like I'll be keeping Altaro to get the consistent backups of the HyperV VMs then messing around with scheduled tasks and Powershell for Backblaze which is less than ideal as I'd have to manage the aging etc manually.
Anyone got other suggestions to try?
I like the sound of Backblaze as their B2 offering is pretty affordable for the quantity of data i have, however finding a good software package to partner it with is problematic - the one I like is Duplicati but it's a little flaky (can't get HyperV backups to work though I can backup normal data and the raw VM data files) and it's still in Beta which is less than ideal for a backup regime.
I run a Ubuntu and Windows server VMs with HyperV on the same server which I currently back up to an old NAS using Altaro free version so something to take care of VM backups in the same package would be good.
I'm not averse to paying a reasonable (under £100) one-off fee for software and Arq seems to work ok but I don't like the lack of configuration in the Windows GUI version (no option for weekly backups, only daily at maximum).
Requirements:
Cloud backup of local file shares
Cloud backup of hosted HyperV VM
Scheduling
GUI or web interface
At the moment it looks like I'll be keeping Altaro to get the consistent backups of the HyperV VMs then messing around with scheduled tasks and Powershell for Backblaze which is less than ideal as I'd have to manage the aging etc manually.
Anyone got other suggestions to try?