[Gllug] offsite backup services

[Ryan Cartwright]

Richard Huxton wrote:
> Ryan Cartwright wrote:
>> Does anybody have any recommendations to a) whether using such a service
>> is a good idea and b) good suppliers of such a service or c) - I know
>> little of doing this so feel free to shoot this down in flames - renting
>> some space and doing it ourselves. If you have tips etc. I would be most
>> grateful.
> 
> The key question I can see people having for any recommendations is 
> "what is the rate of change of your data". If it's fast then bandwidth 
> will become a problem.

Coincidentally my own research has just led me to the same question. I
don't have the exact figures but using find -mtime tells me we have
around 15GB of modified/new data to backup each day. So bandwidth does
become an issue if we're renting a server, places like rsync.net seem to
price only on storage space but they compensate with $1.60/GB (with bulk
discounts). For our server alone we may need ~200GB and I was also
looking into using the same service for our home-based users (currently
backing up to optical media) which would bump it up to somewhere around
300GB.

thanks
Ryan
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