Author Topic: Interwebz backup  (Read 697 times)

lee n. field

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Interwebz backup
« on: December 01, 2011, 07:52:11 PM »
In the aftermath of the most recent Service Call From Hell, I suppose I should start researching this.

For a redundant second backup, who's good in online backup?  Somebody I could hopefully resell, and not just point them to and say "buy this".  

2 servers, a total of somewhere in the neighborhood of 100-150GB of data.  I'm not looking at being able to recover a server from this, just as an alternate stash of critical customer data.
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Re: Interwebz backup
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2011, 10:47:24 PM »
http://www.tarsnap.com/

$.30/GB/Month in storage and $0.30/GB/Month in transfer costs.  The data ends up on the Amazon S3 service.

Granted, you've got to be *nix friendly to use it, and know how to compile your own binaries, but damn if I'm not impressed by it.  I've been stuffing my itt-bitty portions of critical data up to it (40MB total) for about two weeks and I've finally been billed a total penny for the service.

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Re: Interwebz backup
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2011, 11:23:22 PM »
I don't use any so it's not an endorsement but Sungard and Carbonite tend to come up in conversations with the few geeks* I talk to.

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