[ale] Online Backup

[Greg Freemyer]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> Robert Coggins wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I am looking into off-site storage for my personal data, maybe 150GB.  I
>> am wondering what suggestions ale has?  Encryption isn't *that* big of a
>> deal as I would probably encrypt my data either way before sending it
>> up.  Although if you have experiences with services that you highly
>> trust I would like to hear about them.
>
> I plan to start backing up to S3 [0] with duplicity [1] as soon as I
> have the time to set it up. 150GB should cost less than $30 a month.
>
> [0] http://aws.amazon.com/s3
> [1] http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
>
> -Brian

That's really good pricing.

Instead of duplicity, I use rdiff-backup to do a local backup, then
use rsync to replicate my backup archive offsite.

I'm paying ($20 + $0.20/GB) (per month) for the offsite storage.  No
data transfer fees.  I paid $75 last month, so I guess I have about
250GB offsite.

Will S3 let me use rsync in a similar way?  If so, I may look into that.

FYI: I encrypt my data before sending it offsite. I do so by holding
my backup archive within encfs encrypted folders.  I use the
unencrypted virtual folders, but rsync out the raw encrypted folders.

Greg
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