On 11/19/2016 08:31 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
I hadn't thought about offsite. Since this data is so static, maybe I should eventually build 2 and use DRDB to replicate to an offsite redundant copy. That actually sounds like some to add to the plan.
I recall you mentioning that while you had unlimited bandwidth/volume at work you are limited @home. I have that problem too. I solved it this way. I got some could storage. As it turned out, for the volume and traffic involved it amounted to 'free'. YMMV. Its not as if you're making a high volume, high transaction volume, high bandwidth demand! I rsync'd the lot. All at one. All one day. In my case it amounted to about 1T. OK, so it didn't have to be all in one go, and my current provider offers a better deal if I do the transfer between 2am and 6am, but I wasn't willing to do the piecemeal management. Since you have this all as USB sticks you can do them one at a time and spread the load/impact. I paid the overrun price. Actually it wasn't much. It was less than some of the cloud storage charges I saw if I wanted more bandwidth etc. Today, with this ISP, doing it overnight, there wouldn't be any overrun cost. Like you, my data is mostly static. Its mostly photo archives. The older the more static! Every month I 'upload' another filmroll-equivalent and some edits. Perhaps 500-800M. Perhaps not; it depends how active I am. If I was a professional photographer or a very active one like Patrick not only the load in the cloud would be greater but traffic and demands would be greater. But as a professional I could charge that to the business. Oh right. Now, from your POV, you'll need to research cloud offerings. Betcha AWS won't be the most cost effective! I found that my ISP, Dreamhost' offers me a very basic domain (@antonaylward.com) plus lotsa-lotsa basic mailbox plus basic web site plus effectively-unlimited storage option for around $100/year. (That's an increasing billion and billion of Kanukistani pesos, but hey that's life north of the border!) So in my case, the 'cloud' was simply a a directory in my storage accessed via SSH. Again YMMV. I can see the logic of the cloud to business, but for many home and SMB, when you crank the numbers, its not economical. In your case, the cost of the consolidation, the cost of all this argument about RAID for reliability and expansion and backups, might, just might make cloud storage a viable option, not just from the POV of cost but when factoring in the stress and worrying about the decision tree. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org