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Universal Cloud Backup

• rsync 7y ago
  The enabling technology here is the excellent rclone[1] which we maintain in our environment and can be run over SSH: ssh user@rsync.net rclone s3:bucket /some/path What I hope will be interesting and useful is that the ZFS snapshots of the backed up data are immutable and provide a layer of protection against Mallory and her ransomware ...
• vstuart 7y ago
  >>> ## https://www.rsync.net/pricing.html https://www.rsync.net/pricing.html >>> ## price per year for 2 TB: >>> ## 2000 GB * $0.025 GB/mo * 12 mo >>> 2000 * 0.025 * 12 600.0 I use rclone (personal backups to Dropbox): a real pain to set up but works well at a fraction of the cost ($16/mo for 2TB = $192/yr). rclone is glacially slow, however -- I'd much prefer an rsync/rsnapshot option. :-/
  • ValentineC 7y ago
    > rclone is glacially slow, however -- I'd much prefer an rsync/rsnapshot option. :-/ Have you tried tweaking the number of transfers, and the transfer chunk size?
    • vstuart 7y ago
      Yes all of that (thank you h/e for the suggestions ;-). I backup a large datastore: rclone needs to scan everything to `diff` local << >> Dropbox -- takes literally 10-12h.