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I feel that the main problem with online backups is simply a matter of bandwidth. I have in excess of 3 TB of data and even if I only backed up things I consid
by nilved 13y ago
I feel that the main problem with online backups is simply a matter of bandwidth. I have in excess of 3 TB of data and even if I only backed up things I considered _critical_, it would still be so much that it would take a week to upload and cost me hundreds of dollars of data overages. Such is Canada.
It's very telling that I'm even considering this, but if there existed a backup service where I could mail them a hard drive to load my data initially, and then upload only incremental changes, I would be all over that. Of course, uploading videos and such would still be out of the question.
- StavrosK 13y agoSame here, but I can do with a week if it can resume properly and then only upload the diffs. Hopefully, encbup+bup can do that well.
- SimonPStevens 13y ago"if there existed a backup service where I could mail them a hard drive to load my data initially" Crashplan provide this option. I've never used that specific part of their service personally, but I've been a satisfied customer of their unlimited family plan for several years.
- brightsize 13y agoRight. See the "Seeded backup" section here: http://www.crashplan.com/consumer/details.html http://www.crashplan.com/consumer/details.html
- avtar 13y agoIt's possible to mail drives to Amazon and have them import the initial data set http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/ http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/ A former employer of mine did that a few years ago so that they could start serving a lot of high resolution images using S3.