On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:42 AM, yuri <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25 October 2011 11:14, Roy Britten wrote: >> On 25 October 2011 10:59, yuri wrote: >>> I advocate having everything important stored *both* locally *and* on the >>> net. >> >> When done appropriately, I agree. Dropbox isn't for anything you want >> kept securely though. > > I've often thought of partnering with someone in a different city to > mirror each others important data. >
I back up my office server to amazon s3 every night and get bills in the order of $0.19 (yes 19 cents) a month. For the hassle of pairing up with someone else, and ensuring their server is up when you want to back up, and vice versa, and their hard drive isn't about to die, that the data on theor machine is encrypted etc etc I think amazon provides a good solution. > The advantage is that you can partner with someone you know and trust. > yes, but I value the uptime and ease of use of amazon much more. > Small, low-budget organisations could partner in this way to achieve > cheap reliable off-site back-ups. > Define cheap, how many hours will you take setting it up and maintaining it. >> Also, spamming the list in order to get referral credits is in poor >> taste. Don't. > > Agreed. I wasn't going to call the original poster in this, but if it > becomes a habit we'll have to call on the list admin to discipline the > offenders. > > I can forgive a one-off transgression. > > Yuri de Groot > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
