Backup Solutions

[Ian Petersen]

I'm using rdiff-backup (http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/) to make daily
incremental backups to a local machine with a pair of mirrored 500GB
drives in it.  I plan to eventually create a remote, encrypted copy of
the local backup on Amazon's S3 once a week, or so.

If I was a business, with money to spend on backup solutions, I'd use
http://rsync.net/.  Someone from this list recommended rsync.net.  I
looked over their site and it looks like a really useful system.  The
only problem for me was the price--my data is valuable to me, but I
can't afford them when Amazon's S3 is going to be less than half the
price.  Also, it's hard to define "mission critical" for personal
data.  If I have to recover from a catastrophic failure, it's OK if it
takes me a couple of days or weeks.  It sounds like rsync.net hires
people whose job it is to make sure you're back up and running ASAP.
That feature might be worth money to a business.

Ian

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