[Techtalk] offsite backup for home users

[Amanda Babcock Furrow]

No one has mentioned Amazon S3 yet.  I'm pretty sure they're the 
cheapest way to back up large amounts of stuff.  They've just 
rolled out the ability to have your older S3 backups archived
to their new Glacier tape backup service.

I like to use s3fs to mount my S3 "buckets" via fusermount... but
that's not working atm since I'm on Ubuntu 10.4 and need to upgrade
to be able to compile it again, heh.

I can browse my S3 buckets on Android, too; there's an app.

Amanda

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 04:54:04PM -0800, Alison Chaiken 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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