[Gllug] cloud based backup and sync

James Holland holland.james at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Sep 29 13:26:13 UTC 2010



> From: Dennis Furey <dennis at basis.uklinux.net>> To: Greater London Linux User 
>Group <gllug at gllug.org.uk>

> Sent: Tue, 28 September, 2010 22:35:18
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] cloud based backup and sync
> 
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 09:38:41PM +0100, Sean Burlington wrote:
> > 
> > Any recommendations or warnings?
> 
> Tarsnap.com seems to be well  regarded though I have no personal
> experience with it. There's also  rsync.net. They're both a little bit
> pricey but not so bad if you're only  storing 15GB. My own preference
> is to use Amazon S3 with the s3tools (http://s3tools.org). You  can
> synchronize a directory with an S3 bucket but not quite  as
> conveniently as with a remote filesystem. (E.g., S3 imposes a  flat
> hierarchy and limits on file sizes).

http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ works with S3


      

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