[ale] Cloud Storage recommendations?

[Jerald Sheets]

If you don’t foresee having to get it all back all the time, and speed isn’t as much an issue as money, you can try Amazon Glacier.


> On Jan 18, 2017, at 1:00 PM, Jeff Layton <laytonjb at att.net> wrote:
> 
> I saw that quote as well :)  I've just gotten tired my doing my own backups and was thinking about the Cloud. I know AWS has the ability to encrypt data at rest and use SSL for data transfer to/from S3. You can even use your own keys which is attractive.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Jeff
> 
>> Saw this quote on /.
>> 
>>     The cloud is someone else’s hard drive attached to someone else’s
>> server in someone else’s data center at the end of an Internet pipe
>> controlled by someone else. If that works for you – and it might! –
>> great. But do be aware of what you are doing.
>> 
>> – by sphealey
>> 
>> 
>> On 01/18/2017 01:29 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
>>> Good afternoon!
>>> 
>>> This is a little off-topic but only somewhat. I would like to keep a
>>> copy of file from several of my systems, including Linux and Windows
>>> systems, in the cloud with some replication or protection. All told,
>>> it's maybe 1.5 TB or so (not too much) but alot of files :) I won't be
>>> accessing the files - it's more of a live backup than anything (I'm
>>> tired of doing my own backups).
>>> 
>>> I want to be able to do something simple such as,
>>> 
>>> cp -r * <bucket>
>>> 
>>> with whatever command line tools are out there.
>>> 
>>> I've been using Amazon's S3 standard for some time. The current price
>>> for 1.5TB in us-east-1 is $35.21/month (actually not too bad).
>>> 
>>> I tried Backblaze b2 but the tools are pretty clunky, it's not
>>> redundant, and using their help system is an exercise in frustration (I
>>> would enter the captcha correctly but when I hit submit it would tell me
>>> that the captcha was wrong. Plus there is no good way to email them).
>>> 
>>> Any other services I should be checking?
>>>  
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