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Re: [PLUG] Self-hosted online backups?
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The "backup my data" wheel has been reinvented enough times that you
shouldn't be forced to write anything. There's plenty of programs out
there that can do what you need to do. The dilemma is where to store
the backups.
Option #1 is put together a box and colo it in a datacenter. That'll
run you around $100-200 a month + cost of hardware. You'll have to
manage that all on your own, which includes making backups of that
system.
Option #2 is use Amazon S3 or Tarsnap (I'd do tarsnap since Tarsnap
uses S3, and you won't need to write any more scripts to do the
backup, dedup, upload, versioning, etc.) and let Amazon worry about
maintaining the infrastructure.
I'm in a similar situation. I have a system in a datacenter that has
client data on it, and I have to make regular backups and store them
offsite. I'm looking at Tarsnap because I can stop managing my
offsite storage, and with the backups being in the cloud the backups
go from offline to nearline.
Thank You,
Sean Collins
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