With the new pricing for Google cloud storage, it seems like a really viable option. It would be just $10/mo for 500GB of DRA. I've fiddled with their API and it's fairly simple. It could easily be added to a script that does the backup of your database or file system.
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Nicholas Stewart <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
