"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
I'm tying it as I still haven't found a satisfactory off-site solution. I'm in the midst of prepping an external drive to mirror, does Syncronicity run a mirror 24/7 to your external drive? In other words is it automatic or do you have to initiate the backup each time you want to use it?
I almost chimed in but I didn't want to rain on the topic.I personally have a raid 5 server setup and I've gonna build another server off site and I'll be just using rsync to keep them mirrored. Probably the same thing that synchronicity is using for it's backend.Like you I'm cheap, but I also don't like running a GUI on my servers and I'd rather have COMPLETE control over my data and that includes writing my own script to make sure things go where they should. I can also script in email/text messages to be sent out in case of failure. I currently do this for a few clients now and it's great!
My NAS is a mirror RAID 0 I believe, so I've always got a live backup disc, so this software may just be what I need (for off site discs), wishing it was automatic, but I suppose that's not really necessary.I was looking at a QNAP NAS (TS-239 Pro II turbo @ $500+) that has dual drives and RAID and a auto backup scheduler. Then hooking up a sata dock via esata and just swapping drives now and then, but in the end this set up is not much different only I have to remember to do it.It's definately going to be faster with this software than the way I was doing it (deleting whole back up drives and recopying the new data). I just got a sata dock (with esata, yea ) a couple weeks ago because my USB drives are running out of space, later on I'll just be using the internal sata drives (cheap as you said) for back up.