[Gllug] offsite backup services

[Andy Farnsworth]

Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 15:19 +0000, Ryan Cartwright wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> At which point it may well be better economy to colocate a box somewhere
> fairly reliable with lots of RAID storage on it and rsync to that rather
> than subscribe to rsync.net or similar.
> <snip>
>   

If you have a large amount of data (i.e. will use a large amount of 
bandwidth) for the backup, you might look at a local provider where ever 
you are and see about a dedicated circuit to your server so you are not 
using / paying for general internet bandwidth on both ends.  This also 
adds a level of security as your data is not being streamed across the 
internet in general.  I believe that secure circuits are available as well.

Andrew
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