<p>Mail a blueray disk to a local friend every few months </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 1, 2012 2:45 PM, "David Tomaschik" <<a href="mailto:david@systemoverlord.com">david@systemoverlord.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
As many on the list know, I'm going to be relocating to California<br>
later this month, which has made me take a look at my backup<br>
procedures.<br>
<br>
While I have good software for backups (rdiff-backup is pretty<br>
awesome), finding a way to get the data truly offsite is easier said<br>
than done. The problem with most backup procedures is that anything<br>
requiring manual intervention will eventually become an "I'll do that<br>
later" task. For example, the idea of storing an external hard drive<br>
in a safe deposit box occurred to me, but that limits access to<br>
business hours and requires manual intervention. I'm sure it would<br>
happen for the first few weeks, and then every now and then for a<br>
while, and then not at all until I need the data.<br>
<br>
I've also considered cloud storage providers, but between my wife and<br>
I, we have ~1TB of data to backup, and growing at ~100GB/yr. This<br>
makes something like Amazon S3 rather expensive: even at reduced<br>
redundancy pricing of 9.3 cents/gigabyte, this is an annual bill of<br>
$1100 before the bandwidth used to ship it around.<br>
<br>
Another thought I've had is running my own "cloud storage" by coloing<br>
a 1U atom server with about 4 SATA drives crammed into it, but that<br>
seems like it's not going to pay off until I get to the ~4TB space<br>
range.<br>
<br>
Anyone have recommendations on a good offsite solution for home use?<br>
<br>
--<br>
David Tomaschik<br>
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