Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Looking for best online backup solutions

[Ryan How]

Oh and I forgot to mention jungledisk (http://www.jungledisk.com/) with 
Amazon S3. But you'll be looking at about $50 a month for storage costs 
for S3 for 300 gigs. Anyone ever tried rdiff-backup onto jungledisk ?, I 
know a lot of people use rsync.

Ryan How wrote:
> I use vembu storgrid for some of my clients. (http://vembu.com). The 
> free version doesn't let you back up over the net, but you can back up 
> to an external drive or another pc on the same subnet.
>
> Another one I came across is buddybackup which is a peer to peer 
> online backup (free). But you might be battling to back up 300GB on 
> there :)
>
> They are commercial, similar functionality to rdiff-backup, vembu even 
> uses the rsync algorithm, but as dominic said, nicer GUI, also have 
> good reporting, notifications in case of vembu.
>
> For video backup I would reckon just get an external drive and archive 
> that kind of stuff. Use online backup for smaller, often changing 
> files. Much more cost effective. Also downloading 100's of gigs in the 
> even of a crash is not fun.
>
> Ryan
>
>
> Dominic wrote:
> > JoeRyan wrote:
> > > I am new to this stuff, and I usually work in a Windows environment. 
> > > What would be the best way for me to secure my files, and make sure 
> > > I don't lose everything if my computer crashes? I have about 300 
> > > gigs of data, and one video file that is 30+ gigs large.
> > > What about online backup (http://www.backupright.com)? But I've also 
> > > heard about these products 
> > > (http://pcbackupreview.com/backupchoices.php) and this one 
> > > (http://www.carbonite.com) also work well.
> > >   
> > All of your choices are commercial (pay for) solutions. While I was 
> > investigating the same topic, I wrote a page here 
> > http://www.edendevelopments.co.uk/rdiff-backup.php which might give 
> > you a few leads particularly on open source alternatives.
> >
> > Generally the commercial solutions offer less functionality than the 
> > best open source alternatives, but they are easier to use, there 
> > should be less chance of them going wrong (?) and there is someone 
> > else to blame if they do!
> >
> > But as a loyal rdiff-backup user I say the best is rdiff-backup 
> > http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/. Of course!
> >
> > Dominic
> >
> >
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