[TriLUG] Online Cloud Offsite Backup

[Mike Seda]

I use Jungle Disk Server Edition (http://jungledisk.com/business/server) 
for my *personal* server backups, and Jungle Disk Desktop Edition 
(https://jungledisk.com/personal/desktop) for my *personal* desktop backups.

For businesses, I'm inclined to recommend an enterprise-level on _and_ 
off-site backup solution involving Bacula and tape.

I chose Rackspace Cloud Files instead of Amazon S3 for the JD Storage 
Provider option.

BTW, I'm choosing to encrypt the files (as well as the filenames). This 
provides me with enough confidence that even if the JD servers get 
hacked, my data is at least somewhat protected.

The backup clients run on Linux (RPM/Deb/Tar), Mac, and Windows.

The initial full backups take forever at an upload speed of 512K, but 
they *eventually* finish. After that, the incrementals finish a lot quicker.

For *personal* desktops and servers with < ~250 GB, I'd recommend JD. 
FYI, like someone posted earlier, JD charges $0.15/GB, which is pretty 
decent.

Also, I recently got my Dad (Windows XP), and GF (Mac OS X) on JD. They 
are happy with it.


Jim Ray wrote:
> I never had a blue screen with the paper teletype before the cathode ray
> tubes came out. Storage was 3/4" perforated paper tape.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of Clay Stuckey
> Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 9:17 AM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Online Cloud Offsite Backup
>
> Wow... anyone remember backing up to 5 1/4" floppies, or even  
> worse.... cassette tapes connected to a good ol' "trash-80"? Those  
> were the days. Come to think of it, I don't recall that "blue screens"  
> or "rebooting/reloading an OS due to poor performance" were even part  
> of our vocabulary back then. Is that the secret? Should we go back to  
> archaic archival technology? ;)
>
>
> Clay Stuckey 
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