Nadav, Amazon has a special service made just for this: http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing/
The trick with Glacier is that the data is stored _offline_. That means two things: 1) It is actually more failure-redundant than EBS, S3, or rsync.net 2) You get your data about an hour _after_ you request it. Data transfer in is free and data transfer out has a free tier per month. Data storage is the absolute cheapest on the internet. Again I stress, this is the _most_failure_redundant_ service that exists. It is specifically designed for long-term backup and archiving. Furthermore, I am very happy with Amazon's cloud offerings. I have had very good experience with their support teams. On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Nadav Har'El <n...@math.technion.ac.il> wrote: > Hi, I'm looking for a "cloud backup" solution for Linux, where I'll be > able to use "rsync", "sftp" (and similar utilities) to a remote server > to back up by files, and when needed, look at individual files (e.g., > using sshfs) or restore all my files. > > I am *not* looking for a solution based on special purpose (and usually, > closed source) utilities or daemons that attempt to decide for me what to > back up and when - I want to be of full control of this process. > > For the last 3 years, I've been using the services of "rsync.net", and > they're doing exactly what I want. However, the storage price I pay them > is 40 cents per gigabyte per month, is 4 times that of Amazon's, so I > think there must be a cheaper solution. > > One thing I've been thinking - wouldn't it be fairly easy to store my > files on Amazon's S3 or even more simply EBS, and then run rsync server > on a micro instance on EC2? Sounds like a cheap, convenient backup > solution for Linux diehards like myself, and I wonder if anyone has > done this before and then I won't need to code this myself? > > Thanks, > Nadav. > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Saturday, Feb 23 2013, 13 Adar 5773 > n...@math.technion.ac.il > |----------------------------------------- > Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Creativity consists of coming up with > http://nadav.harel.org.il |many ideas, not just that one great idea. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il