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On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> I don't have anything on the cloud to backup too. That would likely be |
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> a good idea but I can't afford anything pricey, which is why I hadn't |
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> bought a backup drive before now either. Plus, something I'd prefer to |
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> keep under my thumb. Heck, some things here are encrypted, bank info |
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> and such. Also, while I have DSL, it ain't real speedy. Backing up |
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> that much data over my connection could take a while, like days, maybe |
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> even a week or more. |
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I put my backups on Amazon S3 reduced-redundancy - it is a few cents |
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per GB per month. I think I have something like 20-30GB backed up. |
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Oh, if you need to actually retrieve it that will cost you 10 cents |
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per GB, but frankly if my house burned down that would be the least of |
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my concerns. |
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I'd only use the cloud to back up critical data. If you want to back |
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up your mythtv and mp3 collection, then you're going to be uploading a |
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LOT of data and paying quite a bit to store it. If you want to be |
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storing TB of data offsite there are better ways of doing it. |
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The advantage of something like S3 is that it is always there, which |
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means you stick a duplicity script in your crontab and just |
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periodically check up on it. You don't have to remember to do your |
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backups. It just isn't practical to use it for more than a few dozen |
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GB depending on your incremental strategy. |
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I also have a 50Mbps outbound connection, which doesn't hurt. |
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Your next best option is to find a friend with similar needs and give |
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each other a place to upload your encrypted backups to. That will |
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just cost you drive space, but if you're both planning on backing up |
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1TB of data it will still cost you the one-time drive purchase. |
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If you want a quick cloud-capable backup solution, I'd look at |
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duplicity. I just wish it had options for Google Drive (it supposedly |
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does, but as far as I can tell it doesn't work, at least not with a |
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two factor application password). |
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Rich |
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