[geeks] Cheap/reliable backup?

[Lionel Peterson]

You can ship Amazon a hard drive to be loaded into storage, with future
updates being sent as incremental backups against that base image.

http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/

Lionel

> On Dec 2, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net> wrote:
>
>> On 12/02/13 14:48, microcode at zoho.com wrote:
>>> On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 02:20:19PM -0500, Mouse wrote:
>>> For some purposes that doesn't matter and/or doesn't apply, and, if it
>>> doesn't for yours, there's nothing wrong with that - but I'd recommend
>>> at least giving the issue a few moments' thought.  Encryption can
>>> sometimes help, but, like everything else, it's no panacea.
>>
>> I guess I could pipe a dd of an entire drive through gpg and ssh it to
some
>> backup provider. I really didn't think of it but it may be the cheapest
>> thing until they go out of business and/or charge ransom to get your own
>> data. I'll have to think about that a little more. With my bandwidth it
>> would take a few days for one drive.
>
> For most people, the crippling bottleneck of remote backups is the
> outgoing network connection.  Typical consumer and small-office
> connections have about a 10:1 download/upload asymmetry.  Bandwidth has
> never kept pace with data storage.  I did some calculations once on how
> long it would take me to do a full backup to S3 cloud storage; if memory
> serves, it was measured in weeks.
>
>
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