Is there a decent flat-rate online backup solution for Linux machines? [closed]

Has anyone found a Mozy (or Backblaze) like solution for backing up Linux boxes? I'm hoping for something with a flat-rate fee for a backup plan ideally.


Crashplan : 1 year plan is $4.50 a month, unlimited. 3 year plan is $3.50 a month.

Local backup, or backup to a friend is free.


I've been using Tarsnap it's a small venture by the head of the freebsd security chief. Colin Percival. A very well respected man in his field. It uses amazon S3 in the background and leverages transfering and storing changes in files instead of the entire set. Everything gets encrypted to your own key (so no leveraging your storage with anyone else) and you only pay for what you use. The site is still in "beta" but the product works as described and has quite a few rounds of testing. Solid stuff.

Tarsnap is an online encrypted snapshotted backup service, currently undergoing public paid beta testing.

At the very least read a few of his blog posts about tarsnap, very enlightening discoveries in there.


I use Jungle Disk with the CloudFiles option (JD has a Linux version). They charge 15 cents/month storage and NO TRAFFIC FEES.


Dropbox works really well on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. It works much better than Mozy for me. Upto 2 GiB it is free. For $99 a year you get 50 GiB of storage.


We've been using JungleDisk on Ubuntu to back up (and keep synchronized) over 4 million files. We use rdiff-backup and it works extremely well.

We're backing up about 900 gigabytes right now and still growing...

I think you'll find that JungleDisk (or any other Amazon S3 client) works very well.

The nice thing about JungledDisk is they have a Widows, Linux, and Mac client.