10GB backup for $10/month

[manlymatt83]

Good or rip?

 

[DaWhim]

rip

 

[fatdragondzc]

rip, save that 10$ each month and get a external instead.

 

[Finality]

Originally posted by: fatdragondzc
rip, save that 10$ each month and get a external instead.

Anyone know a good automated backup setup for a company?

On site with external is not an option.

 

[DeviousTrap]

Originally posted by: Finality

Originally posted by: fatdragondzc
rip, save that 10$ each month and get a external instead.

Anyone know a good automated backup setup for a company?

On site with external is not an option.

Depends on the content, if it's just a bunch of files rsync would be your best bet.

OP - You can get that for $5 a month or so.

 

[RossMAN]

http://www.bqbackup.com

 

[BillyBatson]

RIP!
above posts are right just get an external HD.
of you could always get realiable web hosting with 5-15gb for that much or a lil more and use it for backups and hosting

 

[randomlinh]

that all depends on the service. and offsite backup is not a rip if you value your data, so an external HD is really not a viable alternative.

while webhosting would work, they don't offer things like rsync, or encryption, or better yet, block level changes (I've seen claims of it, dunno if they actually work).

 

[j00fek]

get a dvdrw

 

[imported_LoKe]

Waht the hell? For $10 I can get 20 DVD's with 4.4GB a piece.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: LoKe
Waht the hell? For $10 I can get 20 DVD's with 4.4GB a piece.

Offsite! If your house burns down, your backups will melt! Not to mention burned DVDs have a relatively short lifespan. All of my important files I keep on at least two hard drives, and I keep a copy at work.

Matt, is this for personal stuff or work stuff or what? If it's not mission-critical stuff and all you're woried about is having your backups off-site, I could let you back some stuff up via FTP to the drives I use for backups at my house.

I FTP backups of all of my webhosting stuff to my house every 4 days (DB backups are nightly) and then I have robocopy running nightly to sync that with a drive in another computer (although when I get my NAS drive setup I'll be using that as the second location)

 

[uhohs]

he's looking for offsite backup and people tell him to use external hds and dvdrs. good job idiots.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: LoKe
Waht the hell? For $10 I can get 20 DVD's with 4.4GB a piece.

Offsite! If your house burns down, your backups will melt! Not to mention burned DVDs have a relatively short lifespan. All of my important files I keep on at least two hard drives, and I keep a copy at work.

Matt, is this for personal stuff or work stuff or what? If it's not mission-critical stuff and all you're woried about is having your backups off-site, I could let you back some stuff up via FTP to the drives I use for backups at my house.

I FTP backups of all of my webhosting stuff to my house every 4 days (DB backups are nightly) and then I have robocopy running nightly to sync that with a drive in another computer (although when I get my NAS drive setup I'll be using that as the second location)

If my house burns down, my backups are the least of my worries.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

What kind of files? Rsync can work well, but if it's a large number of files then that could use a bit of processing power...

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: LoKe
Waht the hell? For $10 I can get 20 DVD's with 4.4GB a piece.

Offsite! If your house burns down, your backups will melt! Not to mention burned DVDs have a relatively short lifespan. All of my important files I keep on at least two hard drives, and I keep a copy at work.

Matt, is this for personal stuff or work stuff or what? If it's not mission-critical stuff and all you're woried about is having your backups off-site, I could let you back some stuff up via FTP to the drives I use for backups at my house.

I FTP backups of all of my webhosting stuff to my house every 4 days (DB backups are nightly) and then I have robocopy running nightly to sync that with a drive in another computer (although when I get my NAS drive setup I'll be using that as the second location)

If my house burns down, my backups are the least of my worries.

Not me. Most of the stuff in my house is replaceable. My TVs, computers, furniture, tools, etc - all meaningless and replaceable. My files though - 30k digital photos of everywhere my wife and I have gone since we met, that stuff is not replaceable. I almost lost them once, and come hell or high water I will not lose them again!

All of my important papers are in a fire safe, my digital files deserve the same treatment.

 

[Mayfriday0529]

Mozy

$5 for 30 gigs a month of backup

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: LoKe
If my house burns down, my backups are the least of my worries.

Not me. Most of the stuff in my house is replaceable. My TVs, computers, furniture, tools, etc - all meaningless and replaceable. My files though - 30k digital photos of everywhere my wife and I have gone since we met, that stuff is not replaceable. I almost lost them once, and come hell or high water I will not lose them again!

All of my important papers are in a fire safe, my digital files deserve the same treatment.

bingo. i have a bit of financial info secured on my computer. should my house explode, it would make my life that much easier to have them. and the whole pictures things. those are not replacable.

Jnetty99... mozy sounds nice, there's another service called carbonite too. They claim unlimited.... I have no idea who these companies are, so I'm reluctant to send stuff off that way.

yes, i could encrypt it and send it off.. but say I have 1GB of data... encrypting that daily.. hell.. even monthly would be a pain in the arse to upload, even if I had FIOS. Ideally, I'd use something like a truecrypt containter file... and then backup just the changes to that file... heh.. back to needing block level work. *edit* i think mozy does do block level.. hrmm...

 

[DaWhim]

Originally posted by: randomlinh

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: LoKe
If my house burns down, my backups are the least of my worries.

Not me. Most of the stuff in my house is replaceable. My TVs, computers, furniture, tools, etc - all meaningless and replaceable. My files though - 30k digital photos of everywhere my wife and I have gone since we met, that stuff is not replaceable. I almost lost them once, and come hell or high water I will not lose them again!

All of my important papers are in a fire safe, my digital files deserve the same treatment.

bingo. i have a bit of financial info secured on my computer. should my house explode, it would make my life that much easier to have them. and the whole pictures things. those are not replacable.

Jnetty99... mozy sounds nice, there's another service called carbonite too. They claim unlimited.... I have no idea who these companies are, so I'm reluctant to send stuff off that way.

yes, i could encrypt it and send it off.. but say I have 1GB of data... encrypting that daily.. hell.. even monthly would be a pain in the arse to upload, even if I had FIOS. Ideally, I'd use something like a truecrypt containter file... and then backup just the changes to that file... heh.. back to needing block level work. *edit* i think mozy does do block level.. hrmm...

meh.....just use gmail drive.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: DaWhim
meh.....just use gmail drive.

a) 2GB is not enough.
b) this is a google hack, i'd rather wait for something official. i do believe the feature has been broken in the past. that and the possibility of account suspsension (on the flip side, do not know if that was ever confirmed tho)

 

[thirdlegstump]

If you're looking for a professional solution for a corporate client, I'd go with Amerivault. We use it and are very happy with the quality of service. It's about $30 per gigabyte per month and is fully automated and backed by serious backend systems and staff. I wouldn't suggest any less for anyone worth their salt.

Some examples:

Someone accidentally deleted or overwrote a very important data directory 3 months ago without notifying you until today when you need it: You can restore it.

Active Directory/Exchange Server blew up or caught on fire and you have no replicated servers nor backups.....(you really should...): You can restore it.

Need an older version of a file you've overwritten days, weeks, months ago: Restore the old version down to the exact date.

Got an emergency during after hours and need tech support? Option to pay for tech support 24/7.





I don't work for them. Just a real happy camper that's all. I highly doubt that any of these aformentioned online backup companies can provide that level of service for that kind of money.

 

[randomlinh]

heh, no, i doubt they could. I was looking on a more personal level though. or something cheap for small shops that need it

 

[ch33zw1z]

good if you can link to it, and there's no limit on data transfers!

 

[Specop 007]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: LoKe
Waht the hell? For $10 I can get 20 DVD's with 4.4GB a piece.

Offsite! If your house burns down, your backups will melt! Not to mention burned DVDs have a relatively short lifespan. All of my important files I keep on at least two hard drives, and I keep a copy at work.

Matt, is this for personal stuff or work stuff or what? If it's not mission-critical stuff and all you're woried about is having your backups off-site, I could let you back some stuff up via FTP to the drives I use for backups at my house.

I FTP backups of all of my webhosting stuff to my house every 4 days (DB backups are nightly) and then I have robocopy running nightly to sync that with a drive in another computer (although when I get my NAS drive setup I'll be using that as the second location)

If my house burns down, my backups are the least of my worries.

Not me. Most of the stuff in my house is replaceable. My TVs, computers, furniture, tools, etc - all meaningless and replaceable. My files though - 30k digital photos of everywhere my wife and I have gone since we met, that stuff is not replaceable. I almost lost them once, and come hell or high water I will not lose them again!

All of my important papers are in a fire safe, my digital files deserve the same treatment.

Exactly. The STUFF in my house is covered by my home owners policy. Frankly, I'd end up better off if my house went pyro on itself. Sure it would be a setback, but ultimately I get insurance money and a bigger house.
But my data is NOT covered by insurance and more to the point isnt nearly as easily replaced, if replaceable at all.

Backups FTW.

 

[Mayfriday0529]

Originally posted by: randomlinh

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: LoKe
If my house burns down, my backups are the least of my worries.

Not me. Most of the stuff in my house is replaceable. My TVs, computers, furniture, tools, etc - all meaningless and replaceable. My files though - 30k digital photos of everywhere my wife and I have gone since we met, that stuff is not replaceable. I almost lost them once, and come hell or high water I will not lose them again!

All of my important papers are in a fire safe, my digital files deserve the same treatment.

bingo. i have a bit of financial info secured on my computer. should my house explode, it would make my life that much easier to have them. and the whole pictures things. those are not replacable.

Jnetty99... mozy sounds nice, there's another service called carbonite too. They claim unlimited.... I have no idea who these companies are, so I'm reluctant to send stuff off that way.

yes, i could encrypt it and send it off.. but say I have 1GB of data... encrypting that daily.. hell.. even monthly would be a pain in the arse to upload, even if I had FIOS. Ideally, I'd use something like a truecrypt containter file... and then backup just the changes to that file... heh.. back to needing block level work. *edit* i think mozy does do block level.. hrmm...

I tried Carbonite the free-trial it seemed ok same thing as Mozy. I havent decided who I'm going to stick with.

 

[crystal]

Originally posted by: uhohs
he's looking for offsite backup and people tell him to use external hds and dvdrs. good job idiots.

I didn't see he says anything about offsite backup. Just backup in general. :roll: