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| Software | Server Platform | Clients | Destinations | Cost | Concerns/Gotchas |
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| Duplicati | Runs on client |
| Free | Millions of files in millions of directories can be very slow to back up, and detecting changes to that many files can be beyond many free backup options. Make sure this can handle your data. | |
| duplicity | Runs on client | Linux, or other POSIX compliant system (best on Linux, included in Ubuntu) |
| Free | rsync based, so it may choke on large numbers of small files. |
| Cloudberry Backup | Runs on client |
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| Commercial, $50 per Windows computer, up to 5 computers. For Linux and MacOS cost is $30 per computer. Free trial available. | The same company has more expensive software for larger scale backups. |
| Bacula | Linux |
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| Free with commercial version | Server/Client Model, so you need a server. Based on tape backups so, it's important to understand that you are emulating tapes when using other storage destinations. |
| Rclone | Runs on client |
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| Free |
With all of the above choices, I cannot stress enough the importance of making sure that they can handle your data. Most backup solutions are not designed to handle the extremely large numbers of small files and directories that are quite often found in Neuroscience research, and this only one reason we suggest using Engram which is backed up by RC, so you don't have to worry about backups.
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