On 11/26/2014 2:34 PM, John Hupp wrote:
Duplicati recently released a v2.0 Preview
(http://www.duplicati.com/howtos/how-to-install-and-run-duplicati-2-0-preview),
which offers a browser-based GUI interface over a "block-based"
storage engine that knows how to access popular online storage from
Google, Microsoft, Amazon and more. It removes the need for periodic
full backups, and its block-based incremental approach is
finer-grained than file-level incremental backup. The backups are
compressed and encrypted on your machine before upload. There is a
built-in scheduler. The software is open source.
I don't think it supports file versions, and to back up open/locked
files in Linux it requires LVM. But otherwise, pretty darn good on
lots of counts.
I have it working under Windows, aimed at a Microsoft Onedrive
account, giving me up to 15GB of free online backup.
Nice.
In Lubuntu I had been running SpiderOak, which has a nice GUI
interface, supports some sort of incremental backup -- I forget the
details -- and provides 2GB of free online storage.
The Duplicati 2 Preview supplies a GUI that supports Linux, so it
looked like I was poised to take a giant step forward.
But after tripping over the installation, and then over the
configuration (see
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/duplicati/FSejerztk0c
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/duplicati/FSejerztk0c> for
my problems with those), I stopped and reviewed the fact that
Duplicati only works under Linux if you install the Mono runtime
environment, which supports running .NET Framework code in Linux and
on a Mac. Alluring if you are a developer: write once, deploy
everywhere (like Java).
It seems to me, however, that installing Mono introduces additional
security risks similar to those posed by Wine. Anyone disagree?
Duplicati principal Kenneth Skovhede took some pains to reply to my post
at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/duplicati/FSejerztk0c
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/duplicati/FSejerztk0c>, but I
don't know enough to evaluate what he said. I would be happy if someone
here can chime in with greater authority about whether the Mono
environment adds significant security risks.
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