[TriLUG] Offsite data backup/storage suggestions

[Mark Kempster]

I recently discovered Crashplan (not open-source) via a mention on lifehacker a few months ago, which offers linux, windows and mac backup clients for free that are surprisingly feature-full - they only charge if you use their storage - backup to a local server or to the other clients is possible for free. I was syncing all my household clients to a local server for awhile, but recently decided to try subscribing to the 'Family' type of account and push 4 machines (2 ubuntu, 1 windows, 1 mac) to their storage. So far, so good after the (long) initial data load of about 65GB. There are for-pay ways to speed that up, but keeping the cost low was of interest. I've encountered minor hiccups with the UI, but nothing bug-worthy.

They're currently running a 10% holiday discount (https://www.crashplan.com/consumer/store-holiday.vtl) that brings the cost down to $5 per month for up to 10 clients on their storage.


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Mark Kempster


On Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Jim Ray wrote:

> I just posted this comment to another list and wanted to share plus find
> out if there is an open source solution to continuously backing up and
> piping to the private cloud a Windows system.
> 
> The best way I know without breaking the bank is install ShadowProtect
> on Windows SBS 2011 with continuous backups and encrypted images going
> to cheap local NAS, require Linux/Mac/PC users to dump their images to
> share on Windows using whatever software works with that particular
> operating system and pipe incrementals off site to private cloud at
> local executive's house with cheap NAS and ftp.
> 
> Monthly recurring costs: $25
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of Jack Hill
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 2:47 PM
> To: trilug at trilug.org (mailto:trilug at trilug.org)
> Subject: [TriLUG] Offsite data backup/storage suggestions
> 
> 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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