Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Rich Freeman wrote: >> I don't have anything on the cloud to backup too. That would likely be >> a good idea but I can't afford anything pricey, which is why I hadn't >> bought a backup drive before now either. Plus, something I'd prefer to >> keep under my thumb. Heck, some things here are encrypted, bank info >> and such. Also, while I have DSL, it ain't real speedy. Backing up >> that much data over my connection could take a while, like days, maybe >> even a week or more. > > I put my backups on Amazon S3 reduced-redundancy - it is a few cents > per GB per month. I think I have something like 20-30GB backed up. > Oh, if you need to actually retrieve it that will cost you 10 cents > per GB, but frankly if my house burned down that would be the least of > my concerns. > > I'd only use the cloud to back up critical data. If you want to back > up your mythtv and mp3 collection, then you're going to be uploading a > LOT of data and paying quite a bit to store it. If you want to be > storing TB of data offsite there are better ways of doing it.
Outside my camera pics, I don't think I have anything that critical. I backed them up on 7 DVDs yesterday. I been doing that for many years. Two sets just to be sure. I also rotate the DVDs after a while too. I burn sysrescue ISOs to it or something. > > The advantage of something like S3 is that it is always there, which > means you stick a duplicity script in your crontab and just > periodically check up on it. You don't have to remember to do your > backups. It just isn't practical to use it for more than a few dozen > GB depending on your incremental strategy. > > I also have a 50Mbps outbound connection, which doesn't hurt. Downstream Rate 1536 (Kbits/Sec) Upstream Rate 384 (Kbits/Sec) While it ain't super fast, it beats dial-up and I remember those days very well. Still pretty slow to do backups over tho. :/ > > Your next best option is to find a friend with similar needs and give > each other a place to upload your encrypted backups to. That will > just cost you drive space, but if you're both planning on backing up > 1TB of data it will still cost you the one-time drive purchase. > > If you want a quick cloud-capable backup solution, I'd look at > duplicity. I just wish it had options for Google Drive (it supposedly > does, but as far as I can tell it doesn't work, at least not with a > two factor application password). > > Rich > > I'm just going to try and buy another 3TB drive as soon as I can. I may even make it into a removable thingy. Then I can make backups and just put it in a outbuilding. By the way, my outbuilding is pretty far from the house. A house fire wouldn't hurt it any. I got so much junk in there, a thief would shake his head and leave empty handed. May even cry at the thought of it. Working up a plan and hoping to work the plan. While at it. Latest test results. It finished a bit ago. root@fireball / # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdc smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [x86_64-linux-3.14.0-gentoo] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline Completed: read failure 60% 16394 2905482560 # 2 Extended offline Completed: read failure 60% 16389 2905482560 It is still rolling over. It should throw up its feet any day now. :-( Dale :-) :-)
