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JamesBerry

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Jan 6, 2009
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I am looking for the perfect backup software for me. My needs are:
* Can backup to my Synology NAS (this could be using SFTP, or S3 compatible buckets w/ minio) - don't want to do a file share as have to mount it
* Can store multiple versions (restore to a particular date)
* Runs continuously (or as frequently as possible)
* Can be set to be disabled on battery, and on non-home wifi network (I am on lots of different wifi networks, and VPN'd in so there would be a route to my NAS but don't want it to kick off the backup)

Sounds like ARQ? Certainly does. Only my backup set is pretty big > 500gb - lots of virtual machines and other large files. It gets super slow especially doing validation). So now I need to find something different.

Things I've tried (quickly) - if I'm wrong about any of them please let me know!

* Cloudberry -> can do S3, but can't do battery disable or network selection
* Arconis True Image -> can't do S3/SFTP destination
* Retrospect -> no battery/network selection options
* CCC -> no s3
* Superduper -> no s3
* Chronosync -> no battery/network selection options (also seems more syncy than backupy)
 
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