[TriLUG] Offsite data backup/storage suggestions

[Jack Hill]

Hi all,

I've decided it's time to get an automatic off site backups setup (My 
current setup of exchanging between my office and home every week isn't 
working since it requires manual intervention).

This is for personal/family data. I'm estimating 30GB, which is probably 
contains reproducible data, but I don't want to have to organize my 
content based on whether it needs an off site backup. I'm planing on 
managing the backups with duplicity (other software suggestions are 
welcome).

I currently estimate my cost at around $50/500GB/year (get two $500GB 
drives, replace one every year).

My question is what storage provider do people recommend? My default 
choice would be Amazon S3. I guess I could go with the reduced redundancy 
since that's still more than I'm doing now. What other providers should I 
be looking at? Ubuntu One (n.b. I'm not on Ubuntu) seems a lot cheaper.

Thanks,
Jack