One direction I have gone is to get 2 of the 2TB drives. Keep one off site and trade them each week. You copy everything you need using rsync which speeds up the process greatly. It really is just an incremental update every week then. If you want dailies, then do that to a directory and copy that to the drive.
The benefits are: * Cheap since the drives are only about $150 now each * No recurring expenses. Buy the drives, run an rsync script, and your done * Security. You can use TrueCrypt to encrypt the data. * Data is not in the cloud so it is fast to get to, and out of other people's hands. * When drives get larger, buy them for backups and put the 2TB to work on your system. This is not for everyone, but for those with large video and image collections, it is very fast and convenient. You can use a very large block size for those files, and create a partition of you want for the small files. On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:27 AM, grydholt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Just heard Joe's search for an online backup solution. As I understood > him, he does not need instant online access to the files ("I like > robots"). My low cost solution would be to buy a large 2TB drive and > put it into a Mac (I guess Windows is not an option in this case). The > drive would then be used to consolidate all the photos. In other > words, all photos from various sources (other laptops, desktops, and > various harddrives) should be copied onto this drive. Then open a > Carbonite account and backup the photos for a flat $55 a year. The > advantage is clearly the price, some of the disadvantages: > > - Can only backup internal drives, you need to copy all photos to > this drive > - You cannot easily access the data from other places, this is a > local backup solution only. If you need access/backups from various > computers, you'll need something like dropbox or spideroak, but that's > pricy > > Personally, I am running spideroak for all data, but it is running > close to my 100GB limit. I plan to split my data into two tiers. One > tier is that the data I want to easily share between computers like > mp3 files and photos. I'll be able to keep this under 100GB for the > foreseeable future. The other tier will be flac files and home videos > (which kind of kills the Posse's argument that the normal user does > not need TB's of backup). This tier, I plan to backup using something > like Carbonite since it has a flat rate. I've set up my parent's > computer with Carbonite and it was very user friendly (backup default > Windows folders automatically). > > <tinfoil hat on> > For Europeans, note that the data will probably be uploaded to the US, > and I don't know if Carbonite falls under safe harbour agreements > between the U.S. and the E.U. Of course, the data is supposed to be > encrypted with your own personal key, but you never know... > </tinfoil hat on> > > > > /grydholt > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Robert Casto www.IWantFreeShipping.com Find Amazon Filler Items easily! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
