Offsite backups - In my residential neighborhood near Portland Oregon, bandwidth has been improving steadily. Four years ago, the cable television company began offering internet service, which is currently 4MB download, 384K upload. Now the telephone company is installing fiber optic internet service (FIOS), with 5MB download 2MB upload, for 20% less per month, or 15/4 for 70% more.
With my current 4MB/s download speed, I back up two offsite systems, an office machine in Portland and my main server in Dallas Texas, 3000km away. If I change to FIOS, I will have enough upload bandwidth to consider doing offsite backups from my home office machines to an offsite server, perhaps with a nearby friend like Brian Martin. However, rsync tolerates latency well, so I could make the offsites anywhere in the world, timezones and peak usage hours permitting. Perhaps some dirvish users can find other dirvish users to partner with, and perform offsite backups to each other's machines. This will require a lot of trust, and perhaps some mutual verification of each other's security procedures. However, it would make offsite backups easier to do, and a lot more robust. Perhaps there is some good way to encrypt the offsite storage to reduce risks. Any comments? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
