Remote / Off-site self hosted backup comparison

Every 2 years Primary Technology re-engineers all of it’s services and this year I have been tasked with re-engineering our School offsite / remote backup service. Our current service works well but there are a few things we would change and we feel our current provider isn’t really giving us the support we need to make these changes.

The first part of any successful re-engineering job is to gather a comparison of all the available products on the market.

I reviewed these products/pieces of software:

• Ahsay
• Attix
• Bacula
• Crashplan
• Dropbox
• iDrive Backup
• Intronis
• One Safe Place
• Remote-Backup.com
• Rysnc.net
• SOS Online Backup
• Vembu
• XZBackup
• Amanda/Zmanda

And I reviewed them based on this following requirements of functionality:

• Can the client transfer data and config over HTTPS?
• Does a Windows client Exist?
• Is the software brandable?
• Can I perform a system state backup on the clients?
• Can it export database bricks / incremental / differential backups
• Does the client have a scheduler?
• Can the client stop itself at a specified time
• Can the server push changes to the client backup set?
• Can the client easily select which files to upload?
• Does the server save old versions of files?
• Is the software open source?
• Does the server have overview reporting?

And my notes which probably contain the most important informative information: