[Gllug] Is there any demand for rsync based offsite backup?

Mark Fazakerley mark at fazakerley.org
Tue Oct 31 23:48:47 UTC 2006


There's always mozy: http://mozy.com. I've been evaluating it for a couple
of months. Fine for small setups.Not
great for the 2 Tb I need to backup nightly.

M

On 31/10/06, Jason Clifford <jason at ukfsn.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Simon Wilcox wrote:
>
> > As a matter of interest, how are you doing this for Windows users ?
> >
> > It's something we've been looking at for backing up desktops in the
> office
> > but I've not found something that works well on Windows and doesn't cost
> > an arm and a leg.
>
> We're offering a service called NetStore which is a proprietary solution.
> It works quite well - I've been testing it on my wife's doze PC (she needs
> it for her nursing course but is desperate to get herself back onto a
> Linux desktop permanently) and it works very well.
>
> Pricing is quite good starting at £2.51 + VAT per month for 300MB with
> various options up to £31.45+VAT for 10GB.
>
> It's basically cron, encrypted rsync and an encrypted storage duplicated
> over 2 call centres.
>
> Jason Clifford
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