[lug] How to save $ for off site backup services?

[Aaron Nichols]

Have you considered Amazon S3? Many of these "network storage" companies are
using S3 - you may as well go right to the source. Amazon doesn't sell the
slick client that other shops do but you just buy JungleDisk @ $20 for a
lifetime license (one license covers Windows, Linux & OSX) and then signup
for Amazon S3 using your normal amazon account (you have bought from amazon
right?).

The cost is $0.15/gig/month and then there are transaction fees, etc. I
presently have a little over 2 gigs up there and backup every hour - it runs
me about $.40 a month. Jungledisk offers encryption and you can even setup
separate "buckets" with different encryption parameters if you want to have
a "work backup" and a "personal backup".

Here's a starting point for S3:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=16427261

And here's Jungledisk:
http://www.jungledisk.com/

I've been using this for about a year and have no complaints.

Aaron

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 1:47 PM, siegfried <siegfried at heintze.com> wrote:

>  Can anyone recommend an offsite backup service?
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