[ale] Best Offsite Backup Solution for Home

[Jim Kinney]

Mail a blueray disk to a local friend every few months
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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