[TriLUG] cheap offsite backup

[Heath Roberts]

2010/3/27 Cristóbal Palmer <cmp at cmpalmer.org>

I have an Ubuntu hardy server and I'd like to do offsite backup. I've had
> somebody recommend tarsnap (http://www.tarsnap.com/) for this. Anybody
> have experience with it? Anybody want to pitch me on something
> else? Keep in mind that I'd like to stick with a service (as opposed to
> spinning up another VM to back up this VM), and I'd like to pay << $5/month
> if possible. Initially I'll be backing up about 14G worth of
> database dumps, /var/www, etc. and I expect this to grow by about 512M per
> month.
>

I've been using CrashPlan, albeit not with linux (they do have linux, MacOS,
and OpenSolaris clients), for several months and have been pleased. You can
do backups to a friend for free, or to their central store for $3-5/month.

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Heath Roberts
htroberts at gmail.com