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[Richard Bronosky]

Yeah, I use rsync for diff updating. But, using the network to get my
200gig of photos out to an online service would be a show stopper. I
have a photography partner who tried to use Mozy and it never caught
up. It ran for months straight and never got all of his work backed
up. The important thing is to have physical access, even if it's not
convenient, to your backup. I get my initial backup moved physically,
and if I ever need to recover it I will do the same.

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Pat Regan <thehead at patshead.com> wrote:
> On 01/15/2010 05:42 PM, Jim Lynch wrote:
>> Jim Kinney wrote:
>>> Fantastic idea! Distributed, redundant, encrypted cloud storage. I've
>>> seen some filesystems designed for this but I have not seen the
>>> encrypted part included.
>>>
>> With the price of USB drives what they are it's cheap to provide way
>> more space than you could realistically use over a relatively slow
>> internet connection.   That's  only if you don't have extra internal space.
>
> If there is a fire, or maybe a burglary, I may very well lose my
> original and my backup USB drive.  You can certainly store your backup
> somewhere offsite, but there is some actual physical effort involved in
> that.
>
> Automatic and hassle free off site backup is wonderful when you can make
> it work.  I've used programs like rsync, rdiff-backup, and backup-pc to
> make this happen on surprisingly large data sets even with the backup
> server sitting behind a 768/128 DSL.
>
> My personal backup needs are small, well under half a gig of encrypted
> tarballs to move around.  I have a job that automatically rsyncs the
> backups to one of my web servers.  I try to regularly run a manual
> backup to one of my USB flash drives, and I am currently manually
> running a backup job that uses scp to copy the backups to my Android
> phone over wifi.
>
> I'd really like to automate the phone backup.  I very rarely leave home
> without the phone.
>
> Pat
>
>
>
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