<p>Crash plan, I use it and have 7+TB crammed on there $12/month for 12 boxes. And you can even have them send you a few 2tb drives to do local backup then mail it to them. The backups are encrypted, there is no max file size, ect ect, play with there free ver or give the 30 day free trial a go.</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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