On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 02:12:06 +1300, Chris Bannister (mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz) wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:01:32PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > I burn my nightly backups to DVD's and mail them to a fictitious address > > in Guam--not first class of course.. and they are diligently returned to > > me 2-3 weeks later. > > What a waste of peoples time and resources. Imagine if everybody did > that. Absolutely! The poor Guam postal service would probably collapse under the workload if nothing else. And think of the carbon footprint. On a more serious note, one option for offsite backups which I don't think has been mentioned here is the Amazon S3 service: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_S3 Despite the silly name, these people (who provide an interface to the above) are supposed to be ok: http://www.jungledisk.com although that is only a second hand recommendation. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
