Backup server (OSX) like time machine to backup remote ubuntu 12.04 server [on hold]

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Published on 2013-11-01T00:49:57Z Indexed on 2013/11/01 3:57 UTC
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I've searched my ass of for an good solution to backup my ubuntu server thats in a datacenter.

Local we have an osx server with some external drives attached to it. This is for the local working stations that handle timemachine.

What i like to do is fetch the files (or mount the root of my ubuntu server) and make an time machine backup from it. I just have one problem that if my osx server crashes i can't put back the system because it contains not only the osx server but also the ubuntu server from the data center.

I've used Back in time on ubuntu to do the exact same thing but this was to Ubuntu (local) from Ubuntu (datacenter).

So does anybody has an solution?

Here are my requirements:

  • Set time intervals for backups; need to be backed up nightly.
  • Set time intervals for keeping backups; hourly, weekly, monthy etc
  • Able to back up all computers and servers from an offsite location the local osx server (10.9).
  • Manageable from that one location to login with ssh to do rsync or rsnapshot
  • Has a GUI (osx)
  • Act like time machine, backup only the files that has been changed.
  • Restore to a point back in time.

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