UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect
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So in looking at their github, the backend project has 5 contributors (not including pull requests) and the frontend has only 1 contributor.
It just seems like such a tiny team for something that worked so well and was so simple to setup for my tests.
I'll see if I can get the lead developer to join and post here.
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I'm a fan of small team projects. Easier to feed them, easier to keep them productive and happy.
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Some things that I really like about UrBackup from my testing is that literally anyone, even a receptionist could restore items from a backup if needed.
If that same person had administrative access they could restore for anyone in the entire organization, which is great. A simple website that you dig down to whatever you want to restore from the file path and you can begin a restore.
Or you can let the users restore items themselves if need be.
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The client setup and choosing what gets backed up is also incredibly simple. Once the client is installed (windows test client) you simply add a path that gets backed up.
That's it, that Windows path is than backed up for that client.
You can add paths as well, or do everything server-side so the client is forcibly backed-up.
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The fact that there is CBT on such a tiny project is also an amazing feat, and for only $17/system I'm stumped at how there is competition.
I'd really need some heavy hardware and software systems to test this with to see what it's limitations are.
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I love that UrBackup has Chocolatey integration for Windows users.
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Someone needs to reach out to the UrBackup team and invite them to poke their heads on in over here on ML.
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@scottalanmiller said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
Someone needs to reach out to the UrBackup team and invite them to poke their heads on in over here on ML.
I already did for at least Uroni who is the lead dev.
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Looks like we can manage URB via CLI too.
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It's been a while since I've given URBackup a go. I'll spin up an instance of it in my lab and see how well it works.
I know that it can work a lot like CrashPlan too... Your clients do NOT have to be onsite (or on the same IP subnet) for URBackup to work. IIRC, you specify the IP address / FQDN of the host you want the backups to go to.
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@dustinb3403 I have not used this product, but it sounds like something I need to review.
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Wondering if it could replace our Tivoli endpoint backup.
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@jaredbusch said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dustinb3403 I have not used this product, but it sounds like something I need to review.
I'd really consider it in a lot of situations, let me know how your review goes.
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@coliver said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
Wondering if it could replace our Tivoli endpoint backup.
You can use this for endpoint or server backups, it's capable of file and whole image based backups. It has a separate recovery medium to use from CD or USB as well.
It seems to cover the entire range of things that most places would need.
How it performs on huge systems is what I wonder. 100TB of data etc.
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Last time I used UrBackup was trying to replace Amanda Backup and Bacula.
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@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
Last time I used UrBackup was trying to replace Amanda Backup and Bacula.
Did you succeed?
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@dustinb3403 said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
Last time I used UrBackup was trying to replace Amanda Backup and Bacula.
Did you succeed?
It worked great on the web interface but it was for a small non profit organization so it works and I believe it is still working. At the time I didn't think of this limitations:
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@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dustinb3403 said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
Last time I used UrBackup was trying to replace Amanda Backup and Bacula.
Did you succeed?
It worked great on the web interface but it was for a small non profit organization so it works and I believe it is still working. At the time I didn't think of this limitations:
Is UrBackup more geared toward Windows?
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@black3dynamite said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dustinb3403 said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
Last time I used UrBackup was trying to replace Amanda Backup and Bacula.
Did you succeed?
It worked great on the web interface but it was for a small non profit organization so it works and I believe it is still working. At the time I didn't think of this limitations:
Is UrBackup more geared toward Windows?
No, it is all inclusive with Linux and Mac too.
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@black3dynamite said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dustinb3403 said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
Last time I used UrBackup was trying to replace Amanda Backup and Bacula.
Did you succeed?
It worked great on the web interface but it was for a small non profit organization so it works and I believe it is still working. At the time I didn't think of this limitations:
Is UrBackup more geared toward Windows?
Pretty universally available.
