> I have a reciprocal arrangement with a friend. We both have fibre > connections with no data caps, so we each host a USB drive & Raspberry Pi > belonging to the other. We each store (encrypted) backups at the other's > site. The (rsync) backups are scripted to occur nightly during the early > hours of the morning so as to not have any affect on our links during the > day. > > It works very well, and provides us with automated off-site duplication at > no additional cost over a local USB drive solution (other than the > up-front cost of the Pis, which were <$70 each).
I do something vaguely similar - my parents have a UFB link with the same ISP as me so traffic is zero-rated. I run backuppc on a host internally, and its configured to go grab data from their synology nas by rsync, and from their windows computer by smb. Its not ipv6 because there's an ipsec tunnel in the way, and the nas isn't v6 capable anyhow. So theirs is automatically off-site, but mine's not. So periodically I do an "archive to USB" dump from BackupPC and that gives me ~600GB of tarballs to copy to an external drive. > It even runs over IPv6 :) I'd call you a geek, but that would be pot applying the absence of colour to the kettle. Personally I put more faith in my own ability to not screw it up, more so than I trust a cloud provider to get it right, and to respect the privacy of my data. Spideroak and a few others claim to have no ability to read the user's uploaded data. Most cloud offerings don't make that claim. -- Criggie http://criggie.org.nz/ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
