On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 07:40:58AM -0400, Duncan Hutty wrote: > An open source client is a step towards that: http://www.tarsnap.com > is an online backup service with an open source client. Tarsnap is > written/run by the FreeBSD security chap, Colin Percival. (No > affiliation, not even a customer, but I'll probably use it for > important, personal things (at least), if I decide to get more > rigourous than just distributed git repos.)
Yeah. something like that. But it'd be nice if I could upload to more than one provider, and something cheaper than amazon, and have more of the stuff done on the client and less on the server. I was thinking, for example, if you had a standard sftp, rsync, webdav, git, or some other FUSE-able interface, the client could just fuse-mount the backup provider, then the client could use truecrypt to encrypt it. You could use practically any space provider as the backing store. Hm. but yeah, I should look into tarsnap more. If the server was also open-source, I could setup a competing tarsnap service and say my usual "Well, Colin knows what he's doing and will provide better service than I can, but hey, cheaper is a kind of better too, right?" Hm. It doesn't look as if the server is open source. I wonder if cpersiva would be okay licensing it to me? I'd be okay giving him a percentage of revenue; I don't know how he'd feel about a cheap competitor, but I could make an argument that it could enable him to reach other (cheaper) markets; I dono how much it'd cut into his primary market; I mean, my target is like a penny a gigabyte (I'd charge a premium if I had to license it, but you know, like two cents a gigabyte. so it'd be pretty dramatically cheaper than anything you could do with ec2. But, we're talking a raid6 in one box in san jose vs. six replications in geographically separate data centers, so my stuff would be lower-quality, too.) But yeah, really? I need a backup solution for my own customers, one not managed by me. (It's not a backup if one guy screwing it up can kill both your production and your backup.) If you host with me, you need to backup somewhere else. Problem is, most backup providers want to, you know, make money, and they charge more than the sort of people that pay me for hosting want to pay. _______________________________________________ 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/
