Obnam - a backup solution

published Jul 12, 2015 07:25 by admin ( last modified Jul 12, 2015 07:25 )

Untested by me, but looks promising. I wonder how many people use it?

Obnam can also access the live data over SFTP, instead of via the local filesystem. This means you can run Obnam on, say, your desktop machine to backup your server, or on your laptop to backup your phone (assuming you can get an SSH server installed on your phone). Sometimes it is not possible to install Obnam on the machine where the live data resides, and then it is useful to do a pull backup instead: you run Obnam on a different machine, and read the live data over the SFTP protocol.