[ale] Best Offsite Backup Solution for Home

[David Tomaschik]

I'd contemplated that idea now that blu-ray burners are down around
~$120 (for an external) and discs are $1/each.  I'd just need to
figure out a way to split diffs off onto blurays... I need to look at
rdiff-backup's capabilities to optical media.  (I could use other
tools, but since I already use rdiff-backup and it does encrypted
incrementals, it seems a natural fit.)

David


On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mail a blueray disk to a local friend every few months
>
> On Feb 1, 2012 2:45 PM, "David Tomaschik" <david at systemoverlord.com> wrote:
>>
>> As many on the list know, I'm going to be relocating to California
>> later this month, which has made me take a look at my backup
>> procedures.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Anyone have recommendations on a good offsite solution for home use?
>>
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