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Re: Paid FTP backup
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 1:34 am
by sss
A friend of mine here in the Houston area offers storage space on a SAN in their downtown facility for $0.15/GB. Access is usually done via NFS mount to a Linux box, but I'm pretty sure he can do FTP or SCP as well. You would then back up your data using rsync with a cron job. I can't see a full blown file transfer client being necessary in your application.
Feel free to IM me if you want more information or his company's site.
Re: Paid FTP backup
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 5:40 am
by Liberty
Russell wrote:I am in the process of moving all my hosted email, websites, databases and the like to a new personal VPS over at linode.com. In the process I would like to get an account somewhere where I could FTP up .tar.gz backups of email and vital config files for offsite storage in case of disaster. I would like about 20 gigs of storage for growth. Currently the amount of data that would be stored would be about 5.
Has anybody paid for something like this? What companies would you recommend? I was originally wanting to use Mozy or Dropbox for this, but Mozy doesn't offer a Linux client and Dropbox's Linux client is incompatible with CentOS. So it looks like FTP will be my best solution. This server is on a 100mbit connection so speed won't be an issue.
......and discuss.
Will a basic Go Daddy account [abbreviated profanity deleted] it?
Re: Paid FTP backup
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 6:44 am
by KD5NRH
Russell wrote:I am in the process of moving all my hosted email, websites, databases and the like to a new personal VPS over at linode.com. In the process I would like to get an account somewhere where I could FTP up .tar.gz backups of email and vital config files for offsite storage in case of disaster. I would like about 20 gigs of storage for growth. Currently the amount of data that would be stored would be about 5.
Got a friend with a fast connection and a spare ethernet port? I'm thinking a cheap anything-386-or-better with any drive you want to stuff in it at their place would allow you to have 100% control over your offsite backup pretty cheaply. As long as you're not planning to do something like hourly incremental backups, you should be able to schedule everything for their low-usage times, so they'll never even notice the bandwidth usage.
Re: Paid FTP backup
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 8:15 am
by G.A. Heath
hey russell, look into using rsync instead of ftp this will cause only files that have changed to be copied instead of copying large quantities of already backed up files.