Hi all,

I recently have spun up my home server once again and plan on using it for critical data, such as all of my photos and such. With that being the case, I absolutely must have rock solid backups - I plan on backing up to both a local drive and offsite (ideally to a self-hosted repo on another server at my brother’s house, on his server, though I will use the public cloud e.g. Wasabi, B2, or Borgbase if it comes to that).

That being said, I would also prefer the following features if possible:

  • Bootable restore media with a graphical (or at least TUI) interface (this is the closest to a “must” as possible - I REALLY do not want to use the CLI when I’m stressed and trying to get my system running)
  • Ability to restore individual files or VMs with a web GUI (or TUI) interface within the OS
  • KVM/qemu support (host is CentOS Stream 9) for backing up and restoring entire VMs + configs with ease
  • Automated restore testing similar to Veeam’s SureBackup, maybe utilizing KVM?
  • Web GUI for management/setup (or at least TUI)
  • Generic S3/Borg repo support

I’m willing to pay, and potentially hundreds of dollars (one time) or maybe a small monthly subscription (~$20/mo or equivalent annually max) at that, for a license for something that meets most of those ideals.

Thanks!