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Somewhat offtopic... But does anyone know of an inexpensive backup provider that works with rsync (or at least has Linux compatible software that doesn't require inotify)? I'm looking for something that will run on my Synology DS211j NAS. Crashplan was looking great until I realized the DS211j kernel doesn't support inotify. Backblaze is the same story. I'm using S3 right now, but it costs quite a bit more than Crashplan or Backblaze.

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I've heard good things about http://rsync.net/ .

It really is an issue that most backup providers do not offer a Linux client, I am also bound to S3 at the moment, I have been tempted to try out the windows clients in wine, but It would be great if someone would offer a good(cheap, reliable, non evil =D ) backup service with linux support, even if its just a commandline. Actually an API would be fantastic.. let the openSource community build you a client.

SpiderOak does all of the above. Your data is encrypted end-to-end.

https://spideroak.com/engineering_matters

They cannot peek.

Also, my favourite feature: The client allows you to mirror the encrypted blocks to a remote FTP/SFTP target owned by you.

There's your N+1.

Talk about a zero-trust environment!

So, crashplan and backblaze don't work for you? The previous poster has a problem with them because he is running on an embedded Linux platform that has chosen to omit support for an useful system call from their kernel.

Tarsnap? I haven't used it personally, but the guy seems open and honest about the product. It's open-source and runs on Linux (but you have to compile).

yes ive looked at that, but its double the gb/month cost of S3 and S3 has no inbound traffic cost

BQBackup.com -- inexpensive, but sincerely thought out / well done. Used them many moons ago & the owner Scott is a genius when it comes to hardware.

tarsnap is great, though bare-bones - you'll almost certainly need to write your own scripts on top of it.

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