Online cross-network backup services?

[Jamon Camisso]

Christopher Browne wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_S3
> 
> Has anybody been making any use of services like Amazon S3 for backups
> and the likes?
> 
> It is pretty cheap:
> - $0.15/GB per month for storage used
> - $0.10/GB for data transferred in
> - $0.18/GB for data transferred out
> 
> A few gigs of backups, encrypted, should cost just a few dollars a
> month to store.
> 
> There are a bunch of services that seem to offer more "packaged"
> backup services; the names tend to be less known (ergo an uncertainty
> as to likelihood of their ongoing survival) and they tend to have a
> Windows orientation.
> 
> It seems to me that with S3, one could script up a backup system that
> would cost just a few bucks a month that could even be pretty
> generalizable...
> 
> Looks like Jeremy Zawodny has some interesting relevant links...
> 
> http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/007641.html

A few friends and I are just about to sign up, we've got about 40gb of 
crucial data that will cost a little extra upfront (for transfer in) and 
then just a little per month. Doesn't replace doing rsync to a local 
machine from a production server, but for the critical stuff it's an 
insurance policy on your data more than anything. Clients would probably 
really like using it too.

Jamon
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