I was looking into this today and found a few possibilities: $20/mo for 500 GB https://backupsy.com/#faq-technical $15/mo for 500 GB http://buyvm.net/ (click on "KVM / Windows / Storage") $13/mo for 400 GB https://www.cloudshards.com/backupvpshosting.php
You can probably google for coupon codes and get a lower rate too. Thank you, Nicholas Stewart On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Ryan Simpkins <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, March 21, 2014 16:12, Chris wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:46 PM, S. Dale Morrey >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Depends on the amount of data, but I've had great luck with AWS S3fs and >>> glacier for dealing with backups. >>> >> >> I'm curious to know how well this works (economically and practically) at >> various scales. Would you be willing to share some (rough) details about >> your cloud-based backups? For example: How large is your baseline dataset? >> How large are the daily incremental snapshots? What prices do you pay for >> that amount of cloud-based storage? Can the backend storage service >> transfer data (in & out) as fast as your internet connection allows? > > I am using block based persistent storage at Rackspace. It isn't exactly > "cloud" like, but it certainly does the trick. Nice performance, though you > certainly pay for it. The price is $0.12/GB/Mo. with 100GB minimum. I've > looked in to glacier, and I have several solution-specific issues with that > approach. Restoration can be a real challenge and/or expensive. If a critical > service were off-line waiting for a restoration, it might be difficult to pony > up the cash to get it in a reasonable time frame. I think glacier would be > perfect for large bits that aren't critical. Photos, video, etc. I don't think > I would put database backups in there for anything other than very long-term > storage to add liability protection, etc. > > Turning a file system in to S3 objects seems like a potentially massive > migraine waiting to happen if you may want to restore order to the universe in > the future. If you are okay with chaos (and many applications would be), then > go forth and use it. > > -Ryan > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
