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You have a very particular list, so it's not at all surprising that you're having trouble finding something. > It needs to run on linux That right there is go

by web007 5y ago

You have a very particular list, so it's not at all surprising that you're having trouble finding something. > It needs to run on linux That right there is going to imply some level of knowledge from the user. Expecting a zero-config install for Linux is pushing it to begin with. > It needs to backup files in arbitrary locations, including spanning several partitions (one NTFS, one ext3) And > It needs good filtering / curation capabilities And > it needs to be easy to setup. I don't want to setup my own instance or mess with config files. Are pretty much mutually exclusive. If you want it to be powerful you'll need to do the work to configure it. If you don't want to do the work it's not going to meet your needs, period. No product exists that will meet all of these criteria, even for Windows. I don't think a product exists that would meet half of them, and certainly if it does it's not open source. What you really want is rsync over SSH to a ZFS volume with encryption enabled, or some other CoW filesystem that lets you do snapshots and access them online. If you want to get close, go buy a Synology NAS and set up a nightly rsync cron to it, then set it up to archive to AWS Glacier. That'll get you most of the way to your ideal, and it'll be done instead of perfect.

BiteCode_dev 5y ago
> Expecting a zero-config install for Linux is pushing it to begin with. How so? Dropbox is zero config install for linux. > Are pretty much mutually exclusive. If you want it to be powerful you'll need to do the work to configure it. I never said zero config, I said easy to configure. Firefox has plenty of configuration nobs, but it's easy to configure it. > What you really want is rsync over SSH to a ZFS volume with encryption enabled, or some other CoW filesystem that lets you do snapshots and access them online. No because that's very complicated. I've done it in the past, and just the fact I have to manage a VPS to do so is more than what I want to do. I've used rsync as well, it's again, too much scripting, meaning to much margin for errors. Apple Time machine for linux is what I want, with remote capabilities.
- web007 5y ago
  You have Dropbox and it's no-config required. What's wrong with that? Is it that you have to configure it for it to do what you want, and you don't want to take the time to do so? You don't want to set up a VPS, even though I mentioned nothing about one. I said to buy an appliance, same as a Time Capsule or whatever that Apple thing used to be called. You think rsync+SSH+snapshot is complicated, but you don't know that Time Machine is exactly that, just hidden from you so if anything goes wrong it's a black box that you can't recover from. You think rsync is too much scripting - what are you trying to do that requires scripting beyond `rsync -aP src dest`?

by web007 5y ago

BiteCode_dev 5y ago

> Expecting a zero-config install for Linux is pushing it to begin with. How so? Dropbox is zero config install for linux. > Are pretty much mutually exclusive. If you want it to be powerful you'll need to do the work to configure it. I never said zero config, I said easy to configure. Firefox has plenty of configuration nobs, but it's easy to configure it. > What you really want is rsync over SSH to a ZFS volume with encryption enabled, or some other CoW filesystem that lets you do snapshots and access them online. No because that's very complicated. I've done it in the past, and just the fact I have to manage a VPS to do so is more than what I want to do. I've used rsync as well, it's again, too much scripting, meaning to much margin for errors. Apple Time machine for linux is what I want, with remote capabilities.

web007 5y ago
You have Dropbox and it's no-config required. What's wrong with that? Is it that you have to configure it for it to do what you want, and you don't want to take the time to do so? You don't want to set up a VPS, even though I mentioned nothing about one. I said to buy an appliance, same as a Time Capsule or whatever that Apple thing used to be called. You think rsync+SSH+snapshot is complicated, but you don't know that Time Machine is exactly that, just hidden from you so if anything goes wrong it's a black box that you can't recover from. You think rsync is too much scripting - what are you trying to do that requires scripting beyond `rsync -aP src dest`?