[Techtalk] offsite backup for home users

[chris]

I've used StrongSpace since 2005ish and am happy with it.  It's pretty affordable.  https://www.strongspace.com/plans.  They were originally based in the Bay area, now owned by a Boston company, so you may need to specifically request storage at a non-bay area colo

I wouldn't use DreamHost for anything that needed to be secure though.  I've fixed one too many hacked websites that seemed to have been hacked through their serverside cpanel application and they're not particularly verbose when there's a problem like that until enough customers speak up about it.

hth
chris

On Nov 15, 2012, at 4:54 PM, Alison Chaiken <alchaiken at gmail.com> wrote:

> The recent floods in NYC make me think about offsite backup of my home
> machines.     If an earthquake destroys my residence, or I return home
> to find door smashed and 'puters gone, having complete backup on
> N.A.S. won't help.      Does anyone use a remote, cloud-based backup,
> preferably automated?     I have perhaps 1 TB total of data that
> changes slowly.     I'd like to push a copy offsite perhaps once per
> month, and obviously am willing to pay.
> 
> Obviously, I am a Linux user, Debian if that matters.   I have a
> medium-fast DSL connection.    I won't consider Dropbox, with which I
> have seen an attempted exploit on my own machine with my own eyes.
> Does anyone have another suggestion?    Is anyone using Dreamhost,
> suggested on freenode's #linuxjournal?    Obviously I'm looking for a
> backup outside the Bay Area, as having my bits on another machine in
> Mountain View may not help much in the event of a real disaster.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alison
> 
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