Re: [a0] Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Looking for best online backup solutions

[Dominic]

Sticking with the commercial product theme for a moment: although I 
don't use it, and don't know anyone who does, I think Ahsay Backup 
http://www.ahsay.com looks a very good commercial solution. It seems to 
be fully optimised for transfer and storage and seems to work with 
'forward diffs' i.e. it stores an original copy of a file and then 
stores incremental or differential files which can be combined with the 
original to create a later version of the same file. The backup server 
conducts regular checks to ensure consistency of the data. All files are 
encrypted before being sent to backup, so they are safe from the prying 
eyes of the backup server administrator. There is a free edition for 
backing up 1 or 2 computers to your own offsite (or onsite) backup 
server. They offer more powerful options (including replication servers) 
and are apparently the backbone for remote backup services offered by 
thousands of providers around the world - they even provide a list of 
them. If you don't fancy setting up your own backup server I guess you 
could use one of their customers' services.

Sorry if that sounds like advertising puff (which it isn't). I'd be 
interested to know if anyone has used this product?

Dominic

Ryan How wrote:
> 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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