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If you have a Mac, get an AirPort Time Capsule. This gives you automatic, hourly backups. If you're here, get a Tarsnap account. This gives you backups however

by blfr 10y ago

If you have a Mac, get an AirPort Time Capsule. This gives you automatic, hourly backups. If you're here, get a Tarsnap account. This gives you backups however you script them. They're versioned, deduplicated, and NSA-resistant.

kristofferR 10y ago
Arq is another great alternative, which combined with Amazon Unlimited Cloud Storage, gives you the same benefits as Tarsnap for orders of magnitude less.
- exhilaration 10y ago
  Are you talking about this? $59.99/year? https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/home https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/home And while I've got your attention, 1) are Arq backups encrypted and 2) can it back up via SSH to my own storage somewhere - like a cheap VPS with lots of disk space?
  - Veratyr 10y ago
    1) Yes. The format and encryption specifics are even documented: https://www.arqbackup.com/arq_data_format.txt https://www.arqbackup.com/arq_data_format.txt 2) Yes. Although if you're after cheap space, Hetzner's storage boxes are the cheapest $/GB I've seen (https://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produktmatrix/storagebox-produktmatrix https://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produktmatrix/storagebox-prod...), with Backblaze B2 close behind.
- sliken 10y ago
  Any suggestions for an arq like software for linux? Something that does encryption, dedupe, and can target anything.
DigitalJack 10y ago
It gets kinda spendy backing up a whole drive with tarsnap doesn't it? It's blocked for me at work so I can't tell, but I thought it was operating on top of S3. At bare bones s3 pricing that would be $15 a month if I'm not mistaken, for 500GB.
Veratyr 10y ago
The problem with some of the really nice solutions on HN, like Tarsnap and Rsync.net is that they're really expensive compared to the alternatives. Tarsnap is $0.25/GB, over 5x the price of standard, 99.999999999% durable S3. Rsync.net is ~8c/GB with the HN discount, still over twice the cost of S3. Compare that to Backblaze or CrashPlan, which do all your PCs for $5/month.

by blfr 10y ago

kristofferR 10y ago

Arq is another great alternative, which combined with Amazon Unlimited Cloud Storage, gives you the same benefits as Tarsnap for orders of magnitude less.

exhilaration 10y ago
Are you talking about this? $59.99/year? https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/home https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/home And while I've got your attention, 1) are Arq backups encrypted and 2) can it back up via SSH to my own storage somewhere - like a cheap VPS with lots of disk space?
- Veratyr 10y ago
  1) Yes. The format and encryption specifics are even documented: https://www.arqbackup.com/arq_data_format.txt https://www.arqbackup.com/arq_data_format.txt 2) Yes. Although if you're after cheap space, Hetzner's storage boxes are the cheapest $/GB I've seen (https://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produktmatrix/storagebox-produktmatrix https://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produktmatrix/storagebox-prod...), with Backblaze B2 close behind.
sliken 10y ago
Any suggestions for an arq like software for linux? Something that does encryption, dedupe, and can target anything.

DigitalJack 10y ago

It gets kinda spendy backing up a whole drive with tarsnap doesn't it? It's blocked for me at work so I can't tell, but I thought it was operating on top of S3. At bare bones s3 pricing that would be $15 a month if I'm not mistaken, for 500GB.

Veratyr 10y ago

The problem with some of the really nice solutions on HN, like Tarsnap and Rsync.net is that they're really expensive compared to the alternatives. Tarsnap is $0.25/GB, over 5x the price of standard, 99.999999999% durable S3. Rsync.net is ~8c/GB with the HN discount, still over twice the cost of S3. Compare that to Backblaze or CrashPlan, which do all your PCs for $5/month.