[TriLUG] Offsite data backup/storage suggestions

matt at noway2.thruhere.net matt at noway2.thruhere.net
Wed Dec 14 15:06:00 EST 2011


The hands down recommendation I received from TriLUG about 1.5 years ago
when I asked this question in Jungledisk.  If I am not mistaken, they do
use Amazon storage. I set it up to perform an incremental backup everyday
at about 1 AM and it has done it's thing flawlessly ever since.  I did
retrieve information from the backup once after I accidentally wiped out
my email repository.  It took about 2 minutes to get it all back as it
was.

I use the most expensive, server edition, which operates from a network
based GUI on a separate computer.  It is costing me $5.02 per month.


> 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




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