I don't know how it compares to other backup solutions, but it definitely
seems pricy to me. $1.6 per GB per month with some quantity discounts.
If I wanted to back up the ~50 GB of data on my home computer, that'd come
to (with the discount) $64/mo.
If you only want to backup a small amount of really important data, then
it probably makes sense. But if you want to back up things like
multimedia, it seems pretty steep.
I just back up stuff from my work computer to my home computer and vice
versa using rsync (the application), personally. If you have an
appropriate computer elsewhere that can run rsync, you might be better
served just by buying an external drive for that other computer and using
it for backup. I mean, for the 50 GBs I was talking about above that's
$768/yr. Presuming you can find a location to put a computer and
reasonably priced bandwidth (e.g. cheap DSL), you could use the same money
to buy a cheap computer and pay for the bandwidth.
For that matter, why not just get an account with various web hosting firms
that allow shell access? I'm sure that at least some must support rsync
(the application). Does this service just offer some incredible tools?
I'm not saying it's not worthwhile. If you have the money and not the
time (or access to necessary resources) then this rsync.net might be the
right thing. I was just surprised by the cost.
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Eoin Fitzpatrick wrote:
I found this:
http://www.rsync.net/index.html
They're Open Source friendly. I'd like some testimonial, but I think
I'm going to try them out.
Eoin
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 11:56 -0500, Stephen Adler wrote:
Me too! I'm also interested in this service....
Eoin Fitzpatrick wrote:
Hello all -
I wonder if anyone here uses an online backup service (like iBackup or
Iron Mountain). I like the idea of remote backup from anywhere, but (as
usual) nobody supports linux.
I'm a big fan of rdiff-backup - anyone set this up for offsite backup?
Eoin
