>From what I can tell by reading the info on DreamHost's site about nonprofits, the account is the same as a regular paying customer. DreamHost offers unlimited storage space and we can easily store the backups in a non-public directory. They'd probably frown upon dumping gigs of backups to our account, but a few hundred KB daily or weekly isn't going to matter.
If you'd still prefer to use a storage service, Mozy and Dropbox both offer free accounts with 2GB of storage. Andy On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Nathan Neff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Andy Flesner <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > Agreed on encryption. Google Docs may be an option. We could also just do > a > > DB dump and ftp it to DreamHost. > > > > My reservation with DreamHost is that the purpose of having a DreamHost > account is to make web sites / info public. We probably have a low-end > plan > where we just have a /home/byteworks directory along with > /home/tom > /home/dick and > /home/harry :-) > > Maybe we could consider one of these, although they might be overkill. > http://online-storage-service-review.toptenreviews.com/ > > Google Docs might not be a bad idea, although again, there might be some > gotchas down the line when we have 50+ backups. > > Thanks, > --Nate > > > > > Andy > > > > On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Bill Hartnett <[email protected] > <bill.hartnett%40bworks.org> > > >wrote: > > > > > > > I believe our Google Docs allows you to upload any kind of file up to a > > > total of 1024 MB. That ought to work pretty well as offsite backup. And > > the > > > encryption is a good idea no matter what online or offsite service we > > use. > > > > > > Bill > > > > > > On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Nathan Neff <[email protected] > <nathan.neff%40bworks.org> > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Andy Flesner <[email protected] > <andyflesner%40yahoo.com> > > > <andyflesner%40yahoo.com>> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > How much data are we talking? I'm guessing it's just a small DB > dump. > > > > > Off-site encrypted backups on DVD aren't necessary if it's small > > enough > > > > > that > > > > > we can upload it somewhere. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Probably not much -- perhaps only a couple hundred K. > > > > > > > > I would like to encrypt the data. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > --Nate > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Andy > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Nathan Neff < > [email protected]<nathan.neff%40bworks.org> > > > <nathan.neff%40bworks.org> > > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I want to start getting regular data backups for Enrollio, > > > > > > and obviously, "test" the backup when we move the server. > > > > > > > > > > > > I'd like to encrypt these backups if possible, as well as burn > them > > > > > > to a DVD or ext. hard drive every couple of months. > > > > > > > > > > > > I'd like to start gathering some ideas for doing this > > > > > > - Where do store the data > > > > > > - How to encrypt it (gpg, truecrypt) > > > > > > - How to restore it, and where to store the password > > > > > > - What media to store the external backups on, and where to store > > the > > > > > > external backups. > > > > > > (Maybe an online backup service?) > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
