My alternative to Crashplan

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I’m as other looking for an alternative to Crashplan and before diving to Duplicati hope someone can verify that is can be used the way I used Crashplan.

Basically I have 3 machines that backup to each other.

  1. A Macbook where backup is sent to the other to machines.
  2. A Linux server doing local backup and sending backup to machine 3. Also receiving backups from the other 2.
  3. A Windows laptop sending backup to machine 2 and receiving backup from the other two machines when an external USB is connected.

Hope someone can answer my question.

Thanks,
Henrik

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Duplicati expects the remote destination to be available when it runs a backup. If this is not the case, you get an error message.

Other than that, I think you can set it up as you describe.

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I guess people can live with an error message but will duplicati stop trying or when will it give up?

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It retries 5 times by default, and then it gives up (with an error message)

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But will it resume next time the backup is scheduled?

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Yes, but naturally fail ( in the same way ) if there is no space.

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