Simon James wrote: > A few weeks ago I came across an Internet backup service called Mozy > (www.mozy.com). I've just had my ADSL2+ connected, so figured it would be a > good opportunity to give it a try. > > Mozy gives you 2GB storage for free, but I decided to pay the $5USD for > their unlimited plan. In 10 days and 21 hours I'll have my entire hard drive > uploaded!
See the thread from this list on Amazon S3: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02033.html and also http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/007641.html for lists of back-up services that use it, but it would be easy to individually or collectively roll-your-own (if you'll forgive the tobacco-related allusion), and http://solutions.amazonwebservices.com/connect/kbcategory.jspa?resultOffset=0&categoryID=66 and http://blog.eberly.org/2006/10/09/how-automate-your-backup-to-amazon-s3-using-s3sync/ and http://www.andywibbels.com/post/1128 JungleDisk looks good and it is free (but not, alas, open-source, and given that these tools handle all your sensitive data, I think open-source is a must). The main thing is to use something that let's you deal directly with Amzaon S3 - no middle-man. Amazon S3 has proven to be very reliable, I'm told. Working out the specifications and/or building for such a service, based on Amazon S3, for GPs, might be a good project for Jon Patrick's students - not too big, not too small, would be useful and used by some at least, I would think. Amazon provides Python and other language APIs to S3 which make the basics very easy, and Python and Java etc have good encryption facilities available. It is working out how to weave all these together, what the command-line and Web/GUI interfaces should look like, what management and monitoring interfaces and alerting subsystems are desirable, how to incorporate an automated test-of-restore facility etc etc that is the challenge. > > Mozy is fairly simple and in some cases limited (on the Mac Beta that I'm > using anyway), but it was such a small investment that I didn't bother to > shop around. > > Curious as to what other Internet backup services folks are using - an > article may be in order. > > Tip: Don't even think about Internet backup if you are getting charged for > uploads by your ISP (e.g. Telstra). Yes, it is a non-starter if you are with Telstra. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
