[TriLUG] cheap offsite backup

[Nick Goldwater]

I just tested the Duplicity suggestion that Scott made. It works well with with this caveat: You need to install a python package boto in order to interface with S3 -- http://code.google.com/p/boto

Nick


----- "Cristóbal Palmer" <cmp at cmpalmer.org> wrote:

| From: "Cristóbal Palmer" <cmp at cmpalmer.org>
| To: "Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion" <trilug at trilug.org>
| Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 4:51:33 PM
| Subject: Re: [TriLUG] cheap offsite backup
|
| On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Scott Schulz <swschulz at astrum.net>
| wrote:
| > Another similar option is the newish Rackspace Cloud Storage.
| 
| Rackspace might be a great option if I weren't backing up
| rackspace-hosted stuff. :) Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe.
| 
| So I've got at least one vote for tarsnap and yet another vote for
| jungledisk. Thanks guys.
| 
| Cheers,
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