Backup - Duplicati una soluzione di backup

Segnalo un interessante prodotto per fare i backup, si tratta di Duplicati:

http://www.duplicati.com/

Di seguito le caratteristiche:

Duplicati is a free backup client that securely stores encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on cloud storage services and remote file servers. It works with Amazon S3, Windows Live SkyDrive, Google Drive (Google Docs), Rackspace Cloud Files or WebDAV, SSH, FTP (and many more).  

Duplicati has built-in AES-256 encryption and backups can be signed using GNU Privacy Guard. A built-in scheduler makes sure that backups are always up-to-date. Last but not least, Duplicati provides various options and tweaks like filters, deletion rules, transfer and bandwidth options to run backups for specific purposes.

Duplicati is licensed under LGPL and available for Windows and Linux (.NET 2.0+ or Mono required). The Duplicati project was inspired by duplicity. Duplicati and duplicity are similar but not compatible. Duplicati is available in English, Spanish, French, German, Danish, Portugese, Italian, and Chinese.

Duplicati Features

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    Duplicati uses AES-256 encryption (or GNU Privacy Guard) to secure all data before it is uploaded.
  • Duplicati uploads a full backup initially and stores smaller, incremental updates afterwards to save bandwidth and storage space.
  • A scheduler keeps backups up-to-date automatically.
  • Encrypted backup files are transferred to targets like FTP, Cloudfiles, WebDAV, SSH (SFTP), Amazon S3 and others.
  • Duplicati allows backups of folders, document types like e.g. documents or images, or custom filter rules. 
  • Duplicati is available as application with an easy-to-use user interface and as command line tool.
  • Duplicati can make proper backups of opened or locked files using the Volume Snapshot Service (VSS) under Windows or the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) under Linux. This allows Duplicati to back up the Microsoft Outlook PST file while Outlook is running.

Why use Duplicati?

Keep your data safe, store it far away, update your backup regularly! This is a simple rule but many backup solutions do not achieve that today. But Duplicati does!

Keep your data safe! Bad guys on the Internet seem to look for interesting data everywhere. But people do not want to see any of their private data revealed anywhere. Duplicati provides strong encryption to make sure that your data looks like garbage to others. With a well chosen password your backup files will be more safe on a public webserver than your unencrypted files at home.

Store your backup far away! The best backup is useless when it is destroyed together with it's original data. Just assume that a fire destroys your office - would your backup survive? Duplicati stores backups on various remote file servers and it supports incremental backups so that only changed parts need to be transfered. This makes it easy to use a destination far away from the original data.

Backup regularly! The worst case is that your backup is outdated simply because someone forgot to make a backup at the right time. Duplicati has a built-in scheduler, so that it's easy to have a regular, up-to-date backup. Furthermore, Duplicati uses file compression and is able to store incremental backups to save storage space and bandwidth.

 Da notare il seguente articolo che mostra come fare il backup dei file .pst a caldo quando questi sono in uso:

http://www.duplicati.com/howtos/howto-backup-opened-files-e-g-outlook-pst

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Bisogna sapere che il Backup incrementale si esegue il backup completo una volta e vari snapshot da quel punto in poi. Se si desidera ripristinare completamente il backup, è necessario ripristinare tutti i backup incrementali fino al backup completo in ordine "contrario". Uno degli strumenti migliori per creare backup incrementali è Duplicati perché permette anche di crittografare i file prima di caricarli sul supporto esterno. Inoltre Duplicati viene fornito con il supporto per varie periferiche come FTP, Cloudfiles, WebDAV, SSH (SFTP), Amazon S3 e altre piattaforme ancora.

Può tornare utile sapere che il Backup differenziale: si crea un backup completo e ogni volta che c'è un cambiamento si crea uno snapshot: così tutte le differenze tra il backup completo e lo stato attuale vengono salvate. Se si desidera ripristinare completamente il backup, è necessario ripristinare solo l'ultimo snapshot e il backup completo.

Backup delta reverse: un backup di questo tipo crea una fotografia dello stato iniziale e una serie di fotografie degli stati successivi, memorizzando le differenze fra uno stato e l’altro. Inizia con un normale backup completo: i successivi backup effettuano una "sincronizzazione" delle modifiche con il backup originale, in modo da essere sempre in grado di tornare a una qualsiasi versione precedente dei dati. Esempi di questi strumenti sono rdiff (la base di CVS) e Time Machine di Apple.

[fonte http://www.achab.it/blog/index.cfm/2013/3/labc-della-sicurezza-fare-il-backup.htm]