On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Mark Dennehy <[email protected]> wrote: > Backup-to-cloud (well, backup-to-my-own-server-in-germany to start with) > over 8Mb/s ADSL would work for incrementals (mostly - some days I can be > adding a gig or two in HD video, and I can see days where I could add ten > times that), but images... *shudder*
Are you sure "cloud" backup would be unfeasible? At an upload speed of 1Mbps you can upload 2GB in 4.5 hours. Unless you are generating that much data every day, it sounds pretty reasonable to me. Some online backup services will allow you to seed your initial 2TB backup by sending them an HDD, and they will send you an HDD for large restores. To me the massive cost savings and convenience of online backup would far outweigh the issue having it take half a day to backup a video. I don't know the internet options in Ireland, but with the cost of LTO-5 I could easily justify the increased cost of getting high-speed business-class internet at home. A few reputable backup services in the US: CrashPlan - http://www.crashplan.com/ Backblaze - http://www.backblaze.com/ SpiderOak - https://spideroak.com/ Thanks, Anton _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
