> On Jun 29, 2016, at 2:33 AM, Gregory Orange <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I'm considering tarsnap for our backups. I am mildly concerned about our > Internet uplink speed to get the data to tarsnap on a nightly basis, ... > > The numbers are in the order of 1TB of data over Australian ADSL at a maximum > of 1 megabit per second uplink. By my reckoning, that might finish in 36 > hours, but is more likely to be double that.
I've read several replies to this initial question, but let me add one more thought. Two years ago I had a 1.5-TB drive, which had about 1.2-TB of data on it. Without any warning, I lost the entire drive (after about two years of it working fine). And out of that 1.2-TB of data, there was only about 200 hundred megabytes which was *really* painful to lose. The rest of it was data that I could regenerate, or which I had copies of on my other computers, or which I was sad to lose but didn't really hurt all *that* much. One thing you might consider is to select the most valuable few-hundred megabytes of data, and immediately start backing up that small subset. There's an advantage to having at least some of your data saved to an off-site backup. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = [email protected] Senior Systems Programmer or [email protected]
