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> Why not to a big disk sitting on a computer in your house? I used to do this to save the $6 and backup locally. Unfortunately, it stopped being practical onc
by opendais 12y ago
> Why not to a big disk sitting on a computer in your house?
I used to do this to save the $6 and backup locally. Unfortunately, it stopped being practical once the backups hit 3-4 GB since they'd interfere with my internet access in the morning.
Realistically, what I'd do, is have each founder [or just any 2 technical folk really] each setup seperate accounts at two vendors [e.g. Backupsy + Kimsufi] and have the VM pull the backup from the source. I'd keep a week's worth of backups in this way.
No one person could destroy 100% of the backups. A single breach would not destroy 100% of the backups [although it might destroy the production environment depending on permissions].
The cost for such a solution to cover like 1TB of data? $40/month x2.
If you are a funded startup and you aren't able to spend $100/month on securing your backups I'm not sure what to tell you.
- 6c6db4ab 12y ago> I used to do this to save the $6 and backup locally. Unfortunately, it stopped being practical once the backups hit 3-4 GB since they'd interfere with my internet access in the morning. 3-4 GB of data each day? I backup data from my personal laptop to digitalocean droplet ($5 month) and then during the night backup droplet (which also stores my mail and other stuff) to the disc connected to raspi in my home. Incremental backup (rdiff-backup) takes literally 5 minutes (3 mins for /home and 2 mins for mail). And amount of data slowly approaches 9GB.
- opendais 12y ago> 3-4 GB of data each day? It is just a snapshot of the entire database.
- GrinningFool 12y agoThe problem with incremental backups is that once data at the source gets corrupted, you lose it in both places. Full backups are less efficient, but significantly safer.