[ale] Best Offsite Backup Solution for Home

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Greg +1
On Feb 1, 2012 3:34 PM, "Greg Clifton" <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jeff,
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> I thought that was "a gross." ;-)
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> GC
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> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com>wrote:
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>>  144 a year?  That’s gross.****
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>> *From:* ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] *On Behalf Of *
>> gcs8
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 01, 2012 3:24 PM
>> *To:* Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>> *Subject:* Re: [ale] Best Offsite Backup Solution for Home****
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>> 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.****
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>> On Feb 1, 2012 2:45 PM, "David Tomaschik" <david at systemoverlord.com>
>> wrote:****
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>> As many on the list know, I'm going to be relocating to ****California***
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>> later this month, which has made me take a look at my backup
>> procedures.
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>> While I have good software for backups (rdiff-backup is pretty
>> awesome), finding a way to get the data truly offsite is easier said
>> than done.  The problem with most backup procedures is that anything
>> requiring manual intervention will eventually become an "I'll do that
>> later" task.  For example, the idea of storing an external hard drive
>> in a safe deposit box occurred to me, but that limits access to
>> business hours and requires manual intervention.  I'm sure it would
>> happen for the first few weeks, and then every now and then for a
>> while, and then not at all until I need the data.
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>> I've also considered cloud storage providers, but between my wife and
>> I, we have ~1TB of data to backup, and growing at ~100GB/yr.  This
>> makes something like Amazon S3 rather expensive: even at reduced
>> redundancy pricing of 9.3 cents/gigabyte, this is an annual bill of
>> $1100 before the bandwidth used to ship it around.
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>> Another thought I've had is running my own "cloud storage" by coloing
>> a 1U atom server with about 4 SATA drives crammed into it, but that
>> seems like it's not going to pay off until I get to the ~4TB space
>> range.
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>> Anyone have recommendations on a good offsite solution for home use?
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>> David Tomaschik
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