I'm running backups of personal data to S3; about 80GB/month; haven't really gotten close to Comcast's 250GB/month limit as yet. (I wrote an app in Python to package up backup chunks from my local stage, encrypt, and transfer every day between 0200-0600 to avoid trampling on any other traffic).
Wrote some stuff to poll my router to generate numbers so I could graph my usage, but now Comcast has a "meter" on their site you can check. I could conceivably go over 250 if I had a heavy month and also needed to do a restore, but I'm surprised that it hasn't really bothered me. I think generally I'm paying under $20 a month for this to Amazon, since I only use is as a "warm" copy. It would be too expensive for archive, though. I could cut some 33% off my current residency costs by switching to the "reduced redundancy" storage. _KMP On 04Oct10, at 06:37 , Charles Bennett wrote: > On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 16:43 -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> What other cloud services are people using? >> >> >> >> I'm asking in general, for general knowledge. But I'm also asking for >> a specific reason right now. Up till now, I've been doing my home >> backups by periodically rotating a disk offsite. I'd like to start >> doing backups over the WAN instead. I am aware of services such as >> mozy & crashplan, but that's not what I want to use. I specifically >> want to be able to "zfs receive" on the remote end, which means I want >> to build my own personal virtual solaris/opensolaris server. >> >> >> >> Amazon is an option. But I don't want to naively assume it's the best >> option. >> > > Clearly you're not a Comcast customer? > > As I see it the establishment of "bandwidth" caps is the death-knell for > emerging cloud storage outfits like Carbonite. > > > ccb > > > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
