[Gloucs] Remote backups

[Nick]

Hi guys,

For some time now I've been successfully backing up everything as I 
should onto an external hard drive using a combination of Ivman, 
cron and rsync (rsnapshot) scripts, and it's all been going 
swimmingly.  However I'm aware that as my external drive lives next 
to my computer, in the event of <badness> (and I live in student 
accomodation at present, so that isn't inconcievable - burning 
things seems to be a popular hobby here), it will likely do me no 
good.

My scripts could be very easily adapted to do remote backups - after 
all they use rsync - however I've always put off doing so due to 
security & cost concerns; that is how do I know that my data on 
another's server will be safe, and who would I rent server space 
from and for what cost (I am not rich). I could of course gpg 
encrypt the remote backups, but the problem of where to keep a copy 
of my private key remains (and no, I can't just stick it in a bank 
vault).

So, does anybody have any experience / advice for me with doing 
remote backups? (Andrew I seem to remember you stating that you 
don't trust your data unless it's backed up on several different 
continents.)  I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts.


Thanks in advance,

Nick


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