The biggest problem I can see with this solution is simply that it's not an off-site backup. I haven't had any serious issues with Linode so far, but I don't wa

The biggest problem I can see with this solution is simply that it's not an off-site backup. I haven't had any serious issues with Linode so far, but I don't want to risk losing source repositories (for example) to an event that took down their entire site. As such, I configured duplicity to sync against S3 (http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ http://duplicity.nongnu.org/) and I only back up my "important" bits. I pay roughly 75¢ month over month; definitely worth it. As a sidenote, though, access to on-demand snapshotting might push me to front the $5 anyway.