<div dir="ltr">You might find Dropbox useful since it has a history for each file.<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Matthew Copperwaite 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:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="h5"><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="m_-1193989271769474340gmail-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 style="font-size:large">Tid </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>
            <br>
            Things I'm looking for -<br>
            <br>
            - 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>
            <br>
            I've got a synology server for general backups, but now I'm
            looking for<br>
            an offsite backup solution.<br>
            <br>
            So what do other folk use, and what would you recommend
            please?<br>
            <br>
            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>
            <br>
            So what do other folk use, and what would you recommend
            please?<br>
            <br>
            Thanks<br>
            <span class="m_-1193989271769474340gmail-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></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/" target="_blank">https://alternativeto.net/<wbr>software/bittorrent-sync/</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="https://alternativeto.net/software/syncthing/" target="_blank">https://alternativeto.net/<wbr>software/syncthing/</a><br></div></div>
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