[ale] Best Offsite Backup Solution for Home

[gcs8]

144 squared a month is very worth it to me.
On Feb 1, 2012 3:35 PM, "gcs8" <gcsviii at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greg +1
> On Feb 1, 2012 3:34 PM, "Greg Clifton" <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Jeff,
>>
>> I thought that was "a gross." ;-)
>>
>> GC
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>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com>wrote:
>>
>>> ****
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>>>  144 a year?  That’s gross.****
>>>
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>>> gcs8
>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 01, 2012 3:24 PM
>>> *To:* Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>>> *Subject:* Re: [ale] Best Offsite Backup Solution for Home****
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>>> Crash plan, I use it and have 7+TB crammed on there $12/month for 12
>>> boxes. And you can even have them send you a few 2tb drives to do local
>>> backup then mail it to them. The backups are encrypted, there is no max
>>> file size, ect ect, play with there free ver or give the 30 day free trial
>>> a go.****
>>>
>>> On Feb 1, 2012 2:45 PM, "David Tomaschik" <david at systemoverlord.com>
>>> wrote:****
>>>
>>> As many on the list know, I'm going to be relocating to ****California**
>>> **
>>> later this month, which has made me take a look at my backup
>>> procedures.
>>>
>>> While I have good software for backups (rdiff-backup is pretty
>>> awesome), finding a way to get the data truly offsite is easier said
>>> than done.  The problem with most backup procedures is that anything
>>> requiring manual intervention will eventually become an "I'll do that
>>> later" task.  For example, the idea of storing an external hard drive
>>> in a safe deposit box occurred to me, but that limits access to
>>> business hours and requires manual intervention.  I'm sure it would
>>> happen for the first few weeks, and then every now and then for a
>>> while, and then not at all until I need the data.
>>>
>>> I've also considered cloud storage providers, but between my wife and
>>> I, we have ~1TB of data to backup, and growing at ~100GB/yr.  This
>>> makes something like Amazon S3 rather expensive: even at reduced
>>> redundancy pricing of 9.3 cents/gigabyte, this is an annual bill of
>>> $1100 before the bandwidth used to ship it around.
>>>
>>> Another thought I've had is running my own "cloud storage" by coloing
>>> a 1U atom server with about 4 SATA drives crammed into it, but that
>>> seems like it's not going to pay off until I get to the ~4TB space
>>> range.
>>>
>>> Anyone have recommendations on a good offsite solution for home use?
>>>
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