On Wednesday, 16 March 2016 11:43:19 GMT John Andersen wrote:
On 03/16/2016 11:20 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 1:10 PM, John Andersen <jsamyth@gmail.com> wrote:
On 03/16/2016 09:39 AM, ianseeks wrote:
Hi
Does anyone know where is could find a company/site that will allow me to store backups off site via rsync or sftp? I couldn't see anything on dropbox that would do me.
Regards
Ian
Why do you care exactly what method is used for backups? How much do you need to be stored off-site?
Personally, I use SpiderOak, who have clients for Windows and Linux and Mac. I thought I would need a boat load of storage, so I started with a 100 GiG subscription. I back up Two Linux machines and two Windows machines, selecting specific critical directories, (I don't back up the operating systems), but a users directories as well as financial data, software source code and build environments, etc.
It turns out that these 4 machines account for just over 8 Gig.
I use Spideraok in Backup mode, not data sync mode. Some might call this a contribution mode, where each changed file is backed up and can be rolled back incrementally, and user deleted files still remain in the backup.
In spite of this redundancy, It still uses only 8Gig.
I also use rsync (via Unison) to another machine across town in our other office.> It's so small because SpiderOak dedups the data before calculating the size. It also may compress the data before it calculates the size.
I have a lot more data than John, but I'm still below the 100GB point.
They no longer have a 100GB price point:
https://spideroak.com/about/price-list
Instead:
30 GB - $7/month 1 TB - $12/month
I've been a SpiderOak user for what seems like 10 years (and maybe really is).
Early on it took forever to backup 10's of GBs (ie. a month for 100GB?).
Now I can restore a 50GB share in less than 24 hours.
Greg
Of course both of us have overlooked Ian's request for a UK source.
We don't know for sure where SpiderOak is hosted, as (at last report) it was stored on Amazon AWS service which has many different data centers, including Ireland and Frankfort and a new one coming in the UK. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/
It could be that SpiderOak already picks the closest data center, they don't mention this.
The key reason I recommended Spideroak, is because the are a "zero knowledge" provider, they don't have the ability to decrypt your data or even provide the names of files. Not even with a warrant or at gun point.
Encryption is done client-side, with a key known only to the user.
They also have a canary.
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