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Ideally, I'd like to back up my data too. That's where it becomes much harder: I need a second location. (In case my house catches fire, or floods in a hurrican

Ideally, I'd like to back up my data too. That's where it becomes much harder: I need a second location. (In case my house catches fire, or floods in a hurricane, etc.) AWS and GCE both provide raw disk space, and certainly, an encrypted backup could be uploaded to them. I would like to be able to put a cap on what I spend on service, in case something goes wrong with the system, which AFAIK, neither GCE/AWS provide, unfortunately. I would also like it to be remotely accessible, which a simple terabyte drive doesn't get directly. Now, most of the above (creating a backup, encrypting it, shipping it out to AWS/GCE, securely accessing a drive remotely) are all possible, but none are easy, and certainly not yet at the level of "my mother/father can do it". I try very hard to maintain a private "cloud", and I find it fairly difficult.

jack9 9y ago
Video originals, soundclips, text, edited versions, become a tangled pipeline without experience (in the form of seeing it work in a large project context). I backup my multiple TB of data on Dropbox, some on Github (the code and production assets are committed to it), and external drives at least once a month. I think people have a tough time determining what's important (obviously) and are bad at organizing large amounts of data, conceptually more than technically. That being said, if you are going to generate a lot of data worth anything, even your publishing platform gives you an idea to how to structure it.
jdietrich 9y ago
Redundant cloud storage is made trivially easy by IFTTT. In just a few clicks, you can have your Google Drive uploads automatically replicated to half a dozen other cloud storage services and several brands of NAS. It can also back up your Gmail inbox, your Google Contacts and dozens of other cloud services. https://ifttt.com https://ifttt.com
- thunderrabbit 9y ago
  Sounds awesome! Can you link to such an example on ifttt?
- jiggunjer 9y ago
  Nice ad. Not the best option for people who are trying to minimize their reliance on 3rd parties though, since you are now giving a single entity access to all your online data. Also, their 'recipes' are rather limited in terms of triggers and available services.
ocdtrekkie 9y ago
Personally, I have a couple synced drives at home to tolerate hardware failure, and an additional storage setup at a family member's house, which syncs directly over the Internet, to cover incidents that affect my home. Roughly, I have my important data on five drives across two physical locations. And no data is stored in places I lack physical access to.
peterburkimsher 9y ago
I have a 512GB SDXC card in my pocket. My laptop backs up to a 4TB USB portable drive, and that SD card. If my bag is stolen with the laptop and hard drive, then I'll still have the SD card.
- fencepost 9y ago
  That sounds like the bus factor of your data is 1. With the impending demise of Crashplan's free service their convenient way of backing up to encrypted storage at friends/family is going away but there are other options that may be worth considering - perhaps something based on ownCloud and hosted at a trusted location?
aerotwelve 9y ago
If you're on OS X (apparently Windows now too?) Arq is a fantastic product that automates the process of creating archives, encrypting them before they leave your machine, and dumping them to AWS/other cloud providers. The encryption keys never leave your machine, and their data format is fully documented so you can easily decrypt if they fall off the face of the Earth one day. It's a fantastic product that does everything you mentioned. I can't recommend it enough. (not an employee, just a fan.) https://www.arqbackup.com https://www.arqbackup.com EDIT: I forgot to mention you can set upload limits to keep your monthly bill below a threshold you determine. Very cool.
fiddlerwoaroof 9y ago
Tarsnap works well
JD557 9y ago
>GCE I know you are probably not referring to the OP here, but "recommending" GCE as a backup service in a thread about "moving your data away from Google" seems a bit odd. :)

jack9 9y ago

Video originals, soundclips, text, edited versions, become a tangled pipeline without experience (in the form of seeing it work in a large project context). I backup my multiple TB of data on Dropbox, some on Github (the code and production assets are committed to it), and external drives at least once a month. I think people have a tough time determining what's important (obviously) and are bad at organizing large amounts of data, conceptually more than technically. That being said, if you are going to generate a lot of data worth anything, even your publishing platform gives you an idea to how to structure it.

jdietrich 9y ago

Redundant cloud storage is made trivially easy by IFTTT. In just a few clicks, you can have your Google Drive uploads automatically replicated to half a dozen other cloud storage services and several brands of NAS. It can also back up your Gmail inbox, your Google Contacts and dozens of other cloud services. https://ifttt.com https://ifttt.com

thunderrabbit 9y ago
Sounds awesome! Can you link to such an example on ifttt?
jiggunjer 9y ago
Nice ad. Not the best option for people who are trying to minimize their reliance on 3rd parties though, since you are now giving a single entity access to all your online data. Also, their 'recipes' are rather limited in terms of triggers and available services.

ocdtrekkie 9y ago

Personally, I have a couple synced drives at home to tolerate hardware failure, and an additional storage setup at a family member's house, which syncs directly over the Internet, to cover incidents that affect my home. Roughly, I have my important data on five drives across two physical locations. And no data is stored in places I lack physical access to.

peterburkimsher 9y ago

I have a 512GB SDXC card in my pocket. My laptop backs up to a 4TB USB portable drive, and that SD card. If my bag is stolen with the laptop and hard drive, then I'll still have the SD card.

fencepost 9y ago
That sounds like the bus factor of your data is 1. With the impending demise of Crashplan's free service their convenient way of backing up to encrypted storage at friends/family is going away but there are other options that may be worth considering - perhaps something based on ownCloud and hosted at a trusted location?

aerotwelve 9y ago

If you're on OS X (apparently Windows now too?) Arq is a fantastic product that automates the process of creating archives, encrypting them before they leave your machine, and dumping them to AWS/other cloud providers. The encryption keys never leave your machine, and their data format is fully documented so you can easily decrypt if they fall off the face of the Earth one day. It's a fantastic product that does everything you mentioned. I can't recommend it enough. (not an employee, just a fan.) https://www.arqbackup.com https://www.arqbackup.com EDIT: I forgot to mention you can set upload limits to keep your monthly bill below a threshold you determine. Very cool.

fiddlerwoaroof 9y ago

Tarsnap works well

JD557 9y ago

>GCE I know you are probably not referring to the OP here, but "recommending" GCE as a backup service in a thread about "moving your data away from Google" seems a bit odd. :)