On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:39:23 EST "Richard Bilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > what usage senerio do you have in mind for venti/s3? > > I wanted "set it and forget it" off-site backups, at a reasonable cost > and without significant capital outlays or maintenance. I.e., mirror > an existing venti with a cron job, or use it as a target for vbackup. > As you point out, whether the cost of S3 is reasonable depends on how > much you have to store, and how much it's worth to you to store it. I > don't intend to use it for my mp3s, for instance.
In using S3 for off-site backups I would worry about the time to restore a failed disk (apart from the privacy issues). As an example restoring a 100GB disk over the 'net at a constant 300KB/s of download speed can take close to 4 days. Of course, these days many people have much more data than that. May be there are other remote backup companies that provide a "copy your data to disk and deliver it overnight" service for an extra charge.
