Duplicati

What do you like best?

I love that it's open source, and I can use it however I like, depending on what my needs are or may become. If you're not a "tech" person, don't run away just yet! Yes, you have to open up the instructions and put the pieces together for this one, but it really isn't all that hard and I think it's worth the effort.

What do you dislike?

Its a little barebones in the feature department. And if you're looking to share files and do all of that extra jazz...yeesh. Duplicati is more of a personal solution than anything else. Oh, and there' s no free storage for everyone here either. It manages your cloud backups, it doesn't host them anywhere. That's all on you to figure out and maintain.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Again, this is an open source project, and with that comes an understanding that you can handle making decisions for yourself, and troubleshooting most things yourself as well. There is no support team taking your call at 2am when you mess something up on accident. The only people associated with the project are the developers who made it. That being said, open source projects tend to have communities of users who would really love to help you with any questions you may have, but they're end users like you. That could be good or bad, but again, there's no traditional customer service here, and I'm A-OK with that!

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Before Duplicati, I was trying to do the whole NAS thing and run automated scripts on my computer to make sure things got backed up, and it was a PAIN! Now it just set it, and pretty much forget it.