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

[Paul Rayner]

On 31 Oct 2006, at 18:40, Jason Clifford wrote:
> I'm giving thought to launching an offsite backup service using  
> rsync from
> the client end to a pair of servers at different datacentres.
>
> I already have this service available for Windows users however I'd  
> like
> to make it generally available.

> Is this something people might be interested in and, if so, would  
> you be
> willing to pay a couple of quid a month for a few hundred MB of  
> storage?
>

I've done this as a favour for a couple of customers when setting  
them up little samba/mail/etc servers. After explaining the  
imperfections associated with a single, disk based, backup strategy  
if they still want it I get them to buy a USB hard disk, copy files  
locally then set up an overnight rsync which then emails a log of all  
transferred files to them.

There's certainly demand - I've had other people ask me to do this  
for them in the past but don't have space to add any more usb disks  
in my redbus 1/4 rack, and don't want the liability of running  
backups as a business.

My customers generally back up more like 20-30 gig, but only transfer  
about 5-50mb per night.

> Jason Clifford
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