On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Nadav Har'El <n...@math.technion.ac.il>wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote about "Re: Cloud Backup": > > - You can use S3, but then the rsync could be problematic, since there > > is no rsync "server" on the other side. > > This is the part I'd need to code - run some sort of server process on > EC2. I agree that it would be easier to do this with EBS, so I don't > think I'll actually want to use S3 here (on an unrelated note, I do have > a pretty good plan on how to do incremental backup to S3 without any > server-side software, i.e., no code running on EC2 at all, but doing > this will be more complicated than assuming I can run code on EC2). > > > - Amazon EBS is nice, but the Micro instance to use it with EBSis free > > based on your usage. I used the free Micro instance as a slave DNS and > > after 2 months I had to pay for it since my free usage has been > somehow > > finished. > > The difference here is that while DNS has to be always on - so it costs > you 2 cents an hour for the whole month - my backup isn't always on, I > can only turn it on when I want to back up, and then it will cost me 2 > cents for a full hour (you can't pay for less than an hour). If I run it > Google lets you pay for a minimal time of 15 minutes. ProfitBricks charges by 3 minute chunks. > once every day and assuming the increments will rarely take more than an > hour to send, this amounts to 60 cents a month, which is perfectly > acceptable. > > You are neglecting the most important cost: of data transfer. See "To Cloud Or Not To Cloud? Musings On Costs and Viability." by Yao Chen , Radu Sion http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.174.8806 > > - You can use several scripts that you can find on Google to rsync > with > > Dropbox. > > I wonder how this can work without rsync support on the server side, but > thanks, I'll look. > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Saturday, Feb 23 2013, 14 Adar > 5773 > n...@math.technion.ac.il > |----------------------------------------- > Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Lottery: A tax on people who are bad > at > http://nadav.harel.org.il |math. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. http://ladypine.org
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