Hello, my name is Mauricio and in this video I’d like to talk about Cloudwards’
favorite backup picks for Linux. Before we get to that, though, let
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Now with that out of the way let's talk Linux
If you’re any kind of Linux user, you probably know that a lot of software the
rest of the world uses either barely works, if at all, on your OS of choice.
This isn’t the biggest deal, though,, because in return you get flexibility,
privacy and, maybe most important of all, savings, as a lot of the programs you’re
rocking are free or near enough. However, you’re often missing out on cloud-based
software because those servers don’t pay for themselves. At the same time, with the
market share of the penguin growing, more and more cloud-based services are
creating clients and workarounds for Linux. Online backup is
no different and over the last five years or so some of the biggest players in the
market have made their services available on Linux. So, the upshot is that
while you have less choice than your Windows-using neighbors, you still have
plenty of options available, even though some of them are kind of weird. The best
example is our top pick for Linux backup, which is CloudBerry Backup. CloudBerry is
a service that only lets you schedule backups and pick which files go into the
cloud, it doesn’t come with backup space of its own, you have to buy that
separately. For the purposes of this video, and the companion
article I’ve linked in the description, we went with Wasabi as the
provider of the storage space. For one, it plays nice with CloudBerry, and
secondly it’s pretty cheap. Wasabi will cost you about five dollars for a terabyte of
storage per month, while CloudBerry can cost you as little as fifty bucks, and
that’s a one-time fee, too. Another reason we recommend CloudBerry for Linux users
is because it’s a highly customizable piece of software which should meet Team
Penguin’s desire to fiddle with dials and buttons. Unlike with many
backup providers, CloudBerry lets you decide when to backup, what to backup, and
plenty more besides. Altogether, it’s a great choice, and it offers great
security, too.Now, while all that probably sounds good, we still have two other
ontenders we want to mention. Both are cloud-based, so have the storage space
ncluded, and will generally automate more processes for you, making them
a better fit for the set-it-and-forget-it crowd. The runner-up is
CrashPlan, which is aimed at small businesses exclusively since abandoning
its consumer version about two years ago. This means it’s not the best
solution for people uploading only a few gigs worth of data, but a better fit for
small companies that run Linux but don’t want to mess around with something like
CloudBerry. CrashPlan is ten dollars per month for unlimited
backup for one computer, which makes it decent, but not great value.
Our last recommendation is SpiderOak One, which is one of the first storage and
backup services to offer Linux support, making it an old faithful in this
ategory. Another upside is that it offers both storage and backup from five dollars
per month, making it a very flexible solution. However, it is a pain to
use, so that’s why we’re ranking it last in this little roundup. That’s it from
us for today, we hope you Linux users were able to understand the lay of the
land a bit better. For more detail, check out the linked article below and
obviously please subscribe and have a good one. See you in my next video, bye
bye.
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