On Thu, May 20, 2010 2:14 pm, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 05/20/2010 01:29 PM, Jonathan Duncan wrote: >> You could give S4 a try: >> >> http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/ > > I think just backing up to /dev/null is probably cheaper and quite a bit > faster, since it will all be local data transfer and not over the > internet. /dev/null seems to have quite a bit of space in it, from what > I can tell. Haven't tested my backups yet, though. Probably ought to > do that some time. I believe that /dev/random is the proper read device > for that. They say restores take a while, but I'm sure I can live with > that.
Just make sure to store hashes of your backups somewhere other than /dev/null, so you can validate the restore. I've heard /dev/random can be a little flaky, but that if you pull the data off of it enough times, you'll eventually get what you're looking for. -- Matthew Walker HAM Call Sign: KF7JLF Kydance Hosting & Consulting, Inc. - http://www.kydance.net/ PHP, Perl, and Web Development - Linux Server Administration /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
