<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 September 2017 at 15:22, Christopher Hunter via GLLUG <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>This may sound silly, but it occurs to me that any like-minded
group of people could provide off-site storage for each other.
For example, I have the back-ups for my brother's website stored
on a NAS box here (I also have the underlying structure of the
site stored on CDs), and his web server runs a daily chron job to
do a differential update. Similarly, he has my off-site storage
on a machine on his network, so all my design work gets backed up
halfway across the country.<br>
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<p>Unless the data to be backed-up was encrypted, you'll really have
to trust the person to whom you're storing your data, but you
should be able to trust family members and close friends!<br>
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<p>Chris<br>
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<div class="gmail-m_7183089706244921210moz-cite-prefix">On 24/09/17 11:50, tid via GLLUG wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-size:large">I use
tarsnap[1] for commercial projects, Crashplan for personal
laptops (5 in my house including children) and AWS S3 for
short-lived stuff. </div>
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<div style="font-size:large">Crashplan
home is going away so I'll probably move to Carbonite at the
end of my contract period.</div>
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<div style="font-size:large">S3 is pricy,
but useful for current client work. Tarsnap is great for
longterm archival, and is just rsync/ssh under the hood.</div>
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<div style="font-size:large">regards, </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 24 September 2017 at 11:28, Sharon
Kimble via GLLUG <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>></span>
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I'm looking for some offsite-backup using my fibre broadband
connection.<br>
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Things I'm looking for -<br>
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- UK based,<br>
- pay in UK sterling and not dollars,<br>
- linux compatible,<br>
- ability to restore easily, from 1 file to 100+,<br>
- can use a web interface, as well as command-line,<br>
- secure,<br>
- encrypted,<br>
- ability to 'block-buy', meaning I pay for 1 year and get a
discount,<br>
- ability to backup through cron,<br>
- able to keep 3+ versions of backed up file,<br>
- can have unlimited storage, then I can backup my /home as
well as<br>
possibly my /music,<br>
- /home currently about 250gb,<br>
- /music is about 857.97 gb.<br>
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I've got a synology server for general backups, but now I'm
looking for<br>
an offsite backup solution.<br>
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So what do other folk use, and what would you recommend
please?<br>
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I've looked at amazon A3 - I don't understand their pricing
structure,<br>
crashplan for business - US based and bills in dollars,<br>
safedatastorage - looks interesting, doesn't have prices
quoted to get<br>
an idea of them, spideroak - US based and bills in dollars,<br>
backupvault - looks interesting but they don't seem to be
able to cater<br>
for linux, ditto backblaze, ditto carbonite, elastichosts -
complicated<br>
pricing, don't really understand it.<br>
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So what do other folk use, and what would you recommend
please?<br>
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Thanks<br>
<span class="gmail-m_7183089706244921210HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Sharon.<br>
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group of people could provide off-site storage for each other.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I believe Syncthing (MPL) or Resilio Sync (proprietary), formally known as BitTorrent Sync, may be the kind of thing you're suggesting.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="https://alternativeto.net/software/bittorrent-sync/">https://alternativeto.net/software/bittorrent-sync/</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="https://alternativeto.net/software/syncthing/">https://alternativeto.net/software/syncthing/</a><br></div></div>