Since we're talking about this anyway...
I operate a small business providing online backup service, centered
around rdiff-backup. I've built an installation and backup selection
GUI on top of it so that it's easy to use, and have rdiffWeb set up
for easy data restoration.
I'm not trying to advertise (hence no link to my website), but I did
want to mention this to point out that rdiff-backup can be used in
this way.
Thanks,
JoshN
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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