I rent a cheap dedicated server somewhere close to a primary backbone and installed Linux on it. Then I mounted the user home folders (using sshfs for Linux clients, expandrive for Windows/Mac clients) and with a good upstream/downstream connection, this works really great. Unlike dropbox, speed/performance/capacity is somewhat more within your control. Also there's no synchronization going on, so if you don't like the "eventually consistent" model, this is for you. Still looking for a way to access this from Android though, unlike Dropbox there's not yet an easy way to do this.
/Casper On Feb 13, 2:32 pm, Robert Casto <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 Castowww.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.
