Topic: Off Site Backup

[KnuckleBuckett]

Anybody use an off site backup(s)?

I would expect that you folks that support businesses have an advanced version of this kind of thing.

I purchased Carbonite a couple of weeks ago.

It takes weeks for the initial backup, but at least now I am not totally hardware dependent and if something happens here (home) I haven't lost everything.

http://www.carbonite.com/default.aspx

[KnuckleBuckett]

Thought this would be of interest in this conversation.

http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,2806,4798,00.asp

BTW I paid $50 for a year.  Unlimited.

[Steve]

Carbonite is absolutely fucking great, good choice

[Dumah]

I used it, but let it expire - they don't do Linux

[ober]

www.getdropbox.com

A buddy of mine just turned me on to this.  Currently I think they limit you to 2Gb, but that will probably change.

And it's free!  https://www.getdropbox.com/faq

And I just wanted to add that was use a full disaster recovery system at work.  If our entire data center got destroyed, we could be back online in about 90 minutes with almost no data loss.

[Steve]

Isn't xdrive 5gb? And they are free too

[KnuckleBuckett]

5GB WAY too small.

[Steve]

Agreed but obes mentioned a free one giving 2gb, and I said xdrive gives 5.

[hans]

How about a hosting provider? You can get unlimited storage for $5/mo with someone like hostgator. Encrypt the data before throwing it up there and call it a day.

I haven't actually implemented it yet but I'm thinking about it. Just have to organize my crap and come up with an encryption key.

[Steve]

I drop stuff on my dedicated usually but hosting usually seems to be slower for file transfers. I backup about 60gb on a regularbasis and it sucks

[ober]

Agreed but obes mentioned a free one giving 2gb, and I said xdrive gives 5.

The one I mentioned is more than just storing the files.  It's like a synchronized sharing of files.  I don't think it's meant as a means of backup.

And hosting is another way to go, but I agree that the transfer speeds are not great.  But if you set a scheduled job it probably wouldn't be that bad.

[Steve]

Yea xdrive sucks imo but I thought the other was just storage space. I have a schedule for my reg documents but I don't know how well it would work for media

[ober]

The cool thing about dropbox is that if you keep the documents in there, it does all the backup work for you whenever the file is changed.

[VBprogrammer]

 I know its not useful for large amounts of data but one thing I do is run subversion on an old computer I have lying around. It uses a Cron Job to checkout the code daily and email it to my google account.