The popularity of services like Skydrive, Google Drive, and more, indicates the increasing trust and dependency of people using cloud storage. Coupled with the falling prices, these services offer a convenient way to create system backups on remote servers.
One of the few useful backup tools that allow you to backup your files to the cloud is Duplicati. Duplicati is a cross platform, open source, and free backup client that securely stores encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on cloud storage services and remote file servers.
It works with Amazon S3, Windows Live SkyDrive, Google Drive (Google Docs), Rackspace Cloud Files or WebDAV, SSH, FTP, and more.
Download/Install
Duplicati can be downloaded from its official website and is available for Linux, as well as Windows and Mac platforms. Ubuntu users can download the .deb file and double-click to install it.
Setting up the client
Note: The set up process described in this article is tested on Ubuntu 14.04.
When you first launch Duplicati after installation, the tool gives you options to set up a new backup, restore files from a backup, and restore settings from a previous Duplicati installation.
