Any good linux scripts/web interfaces/GUIs for backing up to a remote server?

Tom · October 2015

Hey all -

Anyone know of some decent scripts, web interfaces or GUIs that will backup directories on a remote server to the current server?
I have tried CDP.me, but ran into countless errors and I don't think the script is still in development.

Thanks all!

PetaByet · October 2015

@Yoda what errors did you encounter with CDP.me?

Tom · October 2015

@PetaByet said:
Yoda what errors did you encounter with CDP.me?

I made a github issue on one of the errors, but I also ran into -

2fo just doesn't work. I can only login when i manually remove the '2fo' and '2focode' (I think) from db-users.json
Backups won't start nor am I receiving any connections to the remote server

Can provide logs/whatever, I'd love to have cdp working! PM me if needed.

edit: errors on debian 8 and ubuntu 14.04, tried both

PetaByet · October 2015

@HostioSolutions @Yoda PM me some details and provide server access (if possible). Let's get this fixed .

K4Y5 · October 2015

You could also look at Syncthing - https://syncthing.net/

4n0nx · October 2015

rsync?

hiphiphip0 · October 2015

@PetaByet
I installed cdp on debian7
There maybe some bugs:

Backup is not working. [could be solved by chown -R www-data:www-data /v[by pass cloudflare]ar/www]
User could not login if 2-Factor Authentication was enabled.

I tried to update google authenticator to latest version but no luck.
So I turned it off and use apache authentication to protect /v[by pass cloudflare]ar/www folder instead.

After running incremental backup for 20 days I found that:

Some backup files are owned by www-data, others are owned by root
Backup was successed, files are in /v[by pass cloudflare]ar/www/files folder, but some records is missing in db-backups.json, some records isn't list by order.

I'm reading the source code of cdp, try to figure it out myself.

GM2015 · October 2015

restricted rsync (rrsync):
http://www.guyrutenberg.com/2014/01/14/restricting-ssh-access-to-rsync

cfgguy · October 2015

http://furier.github.io/websync/

Tom · October 2015

@hiphiphip0 said:
PetaByet
I installed cdp on debian7
There maybe some bugs:

Backup is not working. [could be solved by chown -R www-data:www-data /v[by pass cloudflare]ar/www]

User could not login if 2-Factor Authentication was enabled.

I tried to update google authenticator to latest version but no luck.
So I turned it off and use apache authentication to protect /v[by pass cloudflare]ar/www folder instead.

After running incremental backup for 20 days I found that:

Some backup files are owned by www-data, others are owned by root

Backup was successed, files are in /v[by pass cloudflare]ar/www/files folder, but some records is missing in db-backups.json, some records isn't list by order.

I'm reading the source code of cdp, try to figure it out myself.

Latest commit fixed Google Auth.

Thanks all for recommendations. I'll take a look at them all when I get home!

Amitz · October 2015

I do all my backups to remote servers with rsnapshot and a retention of at least 30 days. Works flawless since years and I would never change if I don't have to.
http://rsnapshot.org
Tutorial:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-rsnapshot-on-ubuntu-12-04