Linux online backup client
Is there a Linux version of the online backup application?
Barry

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BUMP!
Any news about Linux support? I would really like to have this since I am going from windows to linux with my pc's...
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If it happens, expect it to be server version, like current Acronis products running on Linux. With corresponding price tag ( ~$500/year for Online backup for Servers)
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Other than using DD in Linux, I also have yet to find any Windows Equal in any product for any Linux.
Now as I know servers in Linux have the ability to allow the server to be backed up remotely under network services.
Acronis however in the low cost versions do not appear to offer this to the average home user, plus it would then require use of 2 computers at minimum and/or use of network router, hard wired, to both machines, and one of the machines dedicated to be a backup host.
Windows in the versions from 7 and up, offer to the end user what is called VSS (Volume Shadow Service).
That service is able to take a Snapshot image of the main operating system in its live state.
It can only do this by taking a slice of time, to perform this. Apple did this but calls it Time Machine.
It seems that nobody has created this for Linux, but I feel it should be able to be done. Suposedly DD (*disk duplicator) has the ability to do this, but not within the running system. However if the entire computer can be backed up across the network, then surely doing it from the system it runs on should also be possible by looping back on the local network, doing much the same.
I know there is deja dup which can backup the Linux users home folder and beyond but not the entire system.
All of it can be done from outside the system, as Acronis already does.
Many complain about the GRUB problems, but most of that is cause by that GRUB runs on the drive that contains Linux, but it writes a Hook to the MBR of the primary boot drive, which directs it to the Linux drive or some Linux drive, that then is responsible to offer the bootloader.
So problem is if you for example install Windows to the primary drive, it will over write the MBR and thus alienate your from your Linux.
The solution to fix that, is after installing Windows, boot from your Live Distribution media, and reinstall the MBR by running grub-install and grub-update from the live media onto sda1 which is the first logical hard drive, that will rewrite the MBR of that drive, and restore the GRUB bootup again. OR use a Windows product called Easy-BCD which can actually boot into a Linux drive, thus dual booting your computer once again. You just setup Easy-BCD to boot the drive you select in its configuration software.
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