On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Rich Braun <[email protected]> wrote:

> I used Mozy Pro for online backup at my last company, but noticed that even
> today the company still doesn't support Linux.  Ugh.
>
> So what do y'all use?  My AIT2 tape drive just died and I'm thinking it's
> time
> to go online, perhaps with two different providers to back each other up.
>
> I've got about 6TB of long-term archives to deal with, and about 300GB of
> high-priority data.  The sheer volume is why I've always done a home-grown
> solution but I figure it's worth asking about online services before
> dropping
> another $1000 or so doing an equipment upgrade of my home-built stuff.
>
> 6TB might sound like a lot, but you can just buy three 2TB drives for a
> total
> of about $250 at today's prices, copy the data off to them, and toss them
> in a
> friend's closet.  "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon
> full
> of magtapes driving down the freeway at 60mph". ;-)
>
> -rich
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Discuss mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>

I'm a big fan of Amazon's S3 service for offsite storage.  They have a
number of different clients for all platforms.  I believe the linux ones
you'd be looking for are called s3cmd

-matt
_______________________________________________
Discuss mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Reply via email to