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

[Jason Vallery]

I second this.  I use it both to backup my Mac and my CentOS servers.
There is a great ruby command line app that is the foundation to my
backup process.

The script can be found at: http://s3sync.net/wiki

I also wrote a tutorial a while back for the Mac, but the process on a
Linux box would be very similar by using cron instead of editing the
plist on the Mac.  The tutorial is here:
http://vallery.net/2008/02/01/using-amazon-s3-to-automatically-backup-your-mac/

-J




On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Aaron Nichols <anichols at trumped.org> wrote:
> 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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