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wuischke

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From: Suisse Romande

Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 630

Online Backup Solutions?

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to make it a habit to back stuff up. I want to use cheap "cloud storage" and multiple providers to be safe against failure of one service.

Currently (since about a month) I use the following two services:

- tarsnap (uses Amazon S3)
- livedrive.com FTP + duplicity

Tarsnap is usage based ($0.30 per GB) and livedrive is ~45€ a year for 100GB. Do you know of any similar services? I checked Windows Azure, but there are no bindings yet.

Thanks for your comments.

genisis300

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From: Uk

Registered: 2008-01-15

Posts: 284

Re: Online Backup Solutions?

I use adrive.com sometimes it's flash based and you have to pay for ftp access but it has a good free account

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fukawi2

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From: .vic.au

Registered: 2007-09-28

Posts: 6,222

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Re: Online Backup Solutions?

I use rsync.net and am very happy with their services. I backup 3 VPS'es and the config's from my home computers to there.

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jwwolf

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Registered: 2009-06-29

Posts: 74

Re: Online Backup Solutions?

Amazon's S3 service and Jungle Disk(Designed to work with S3 service and/or Rackspace's Cloud Service) is great.
Amazon's Pricing

Storage
  $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used
Data Transfer
  $0.10 per GB of data uploaded
  $0.17 per GB of data downloaded

Last edited by jwwolf (2009-08-26 06:20:24)

wuischke

Member

From: Suisse Romande

Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 630

Re: Online Backup Solutions?

Thanks for your valuable input, guys.

genisis300: Unfortunately I can't use Flash from the cli and prices for FTP are higher than for livedrive.

fukawi2: rsync.net looks indeed very interesting, thanks for the tip.

jwwolf: That's a pretty good offer, too. (I didn't know about rackspace, it's even cheaper than amazon S3 EU if I'm not mistaken) Do you know if they have a cli application, too? How does their software work on Linux? (Debian Server + Arch Desktop)