Add SSH/SFTP Support into Backup Module

[JOduMonT (Jonathan Dumont)]

After a proposition of @alefattorini

How are you backup your system?

Usually rsync for /etc /var/www /var/log /var/lib/nethserver to another site every night a weekly snapshot on DigitalOcean or VmWare. Eventually, if the Backup Module would provide possibilities to use a SSH or SFTP, I’ll make a daily incremental backup + a full every week and keeping my snapshot too.

and use all my photoshop skill
I would like to ask a this option into the Backup Module

Or if it’s too complicate
If it’s possible to make a Module with CrashPlan
https://www.code42.com/crashplan/features/

[JOduMonT (Jonathan Dumont)]

make a Module with CrashPlan

Actually CrashPlan is a bad exemple because it need a GUI.
Instead I found BoxBackup
http://www.boxbackup.org/wiki/BoxComparison

[alefattorini (Alessio Fattorini)]

Take a look at this dicussion too, @filippo_carletti has already made some tests:

Backup-data-cloud

Download this archive to nethserver: wget http://nethservice.nethesis.it/cloud-backup-duplicity.tar.gz Extract: tar -zxvf cloud-backup-duplicity.tar.gz -C / Configure the script: config set backup-data-cloud configuration status enabled TargetUrl 'sftp://root@remoteserver.example.org:2222//mnt/backup/remotepath' remotepath cound be empty or initialized with a full backup If you start from a full backup this command checks you can read it: duplicity collection-status --archive-dir /var…

[giacomo (Giacomo Sanchietti)]

Such a feature can be added since SSH backend is already supported by Duplicity, but it requires some work.
See: http://duplicity.nongnu.org/duplicity.1.html

Anyone else is interested in this feature?

[alefattorini (Alessio Fattorini)]

Anyone else is interested in this feature?

Feel free to reply to this discussion and like the first topic of the current thread.

[mabeleira (Jose "Martin" Abeleira. AKA Marto)]

I think it might be very usefull