jeffmeh wrote: > I was looking at these types of services to be able to have an online > backup, but I decided that for the amount of data I have that it is > impractical. For me, the bottleneck is the upload bandwidth to get the > data out there in the first place. My flac library is not huge, around > 85 GB, but my ISP limits upload bandwidth to 384 kbps, or 768 kbps if I > pay an additional $10 per month. > > 85 GB ~= 9 x 10^10 bytes ~= 7 X 10^11 bits > 384 kbps ~= 4 x 10^5 bits/sec > > 85 GB / 384 kbps ~= 2 x 10^6 sec ~= 23 days > > Even at double the bandwidth, it would take over 10 days, assuming that > I was able to get the maximum bandwidth, that it never timed out, got > interrupted, encountered errors, etc. > > To be honest, I have the storage space out there already, and I tested > uploading 1 album's worth of flac files. It took so long that I > decided not to continue. Now, if I had physical access to the server > and could "seed" it with the 85 GB by connecting a USB drive, I might > consider doing incremental uploads from there. However, even that is > pretty impractical unless you have much better upload bandwidth. >
I have 1024 Kbit upstream (20 Mbit down) and I backup my (100 G+) files to a colo server (which I seeded first) and I can confirm that even with incremental backups you have to be careful not to add too much music at once. I like my backups to be finished by the time I wake up. Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
