Free Offsite Backup Solutions

[Wyndru]

Does anyone know of any free Windows software that will allow me to create my own offsite backups?

I'm not referring to "cloud" based services, but more along the lines of 2 locations that I have servers set-up that backup to each other.

I'm not concerned with the logistics of the data-throughput needed, I'm just wondering if there is any free software out there that can manage backing up data to a remote location. Preferably with scheduling and the ability to do full/incremental and de-duplication.

I've heard that you can do this with CrashPlan (their free client) by using the "Backup to a friend" option. Supposedly it does de-duplication as well, and will send compressed data to be backed up encrypted over the internet. Has anyone tried this? I'd be curious how well it works before I sign up for an account. I guess you need to register even to use it locally.

 

[masteryoda34]

Operating System ??

Check out Duplicati: https://code.google.com/p/duplicati/

 

[Wyndru]

Operating System ??

Check out Duplicati: https://code.google.com/p/duplicati/

Haha, sorry about that...Windows.

Thanks for the link, I'll check that out.

 

[Wyndru]

Just wanted to mention that I've been using this backup solution for offsite since masteryoda34 mentioned it, and I'm loving it.

I have my family members' important documents backing up via ftp to my server in my house and it's been working great. It nice because even if they shut it down in the middle of a backup it will re-read the signatures the next time and continue where it left off until it completes the backup.

I'm only transferring over essential items (important docs) but it's been great. I'm amazed it's free and works as advertised. The only feature I wish it had was email to send logs or even just failure notifications to me, but supposedly it might be coming in a new version. Aside from that, it just works, so I'm happy.

Thanks again for the suggestion!