Online cross-network backup services?

[Dave Bour]

I run an rsync based backup service.   Provides 30 day rolling view of data.  Contact me off list if interested for more info
 
Dave Bour
Desktop Solution Center
905.381.0077
dcbour at desktopsolutioncenter.ca

For those who just want it to work...
Giving you complete IT peace of mind. 

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From: owner-tlug at ss.org <owner-tlug at ss.org>
To: tlug at ss.org <tlug at ss.org>
Sent: Thu Jul 12 17:39:46 2007
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Online cross-network backup services?

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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