[Gllug] offsite backup services

[Ryan Cartwright]

- Tethys wrote:
> On Dec 12, 2007 4:53 PM, Ryan Cartwright <ryan at crimperman.org> wrote:
> 
>> To which I would ask - is there a pay-off for bandwidth?
> 
> I'm not entirely sure what you're asking there. I'm hosting my servers
> with a friend, and am getting a good deal on both hosting and
> bandwidth. But that's mostly irrelevant here -- rsync is explicitly
> designed to minimize bandwidth usage. Unless you have massive daily
> churn, then your bandwidth usage is likely to be well within any
> limits imposed by the hosting company (aside from a one off initial
> copy, of course).
> 
> Tet

Based upon "find -mtime" estimates my server has about 12-14GB of
modified/new data to backup each day. Thus I could see myself going
above a typical hosting included bandwidth allowance (e.g. Bytemark's is
100GB/month) and upping that would increase the cost.

-- 
Ryan Cartwright
http://www.cafamily.org.uk/oss
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