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Just have two external hard drives. I have one at home I use daily, and then one I keep in my desk drawer at work I use weekly [1]. The chances of both failin
by tsally 17y ago
Just have two external hard drives. I have one at home I use daily, and then one I keep in my desk drawer at work I use weekly [1]. The chances of both failing at once are pretty unlikely. You could do the cloud, but I'm not comfortable having all my data in the could. If you have to use an external provider, use Rysnc [2] . They seem trustworthy [3].
[1] http://jwz.livejournal.com/801607.html http://jwz.livejournal.com/801607.html
[2] http://rsync.net/ http://rsync.net/
[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=702247 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=702247
- MicahWedemeyer 17y agoDoes it have to be "the cloud" as in S3? What about good old space on a traditional host? I have a Dreamhost account that claims to offer "unlimited" space for a flat monthly rate, and they support traditional *nix rsync/scp/etc. Seems like a good fit to me.
- duskwuff 17y agoUnlimited space for web content. Backups don't count as web content, and will get you smacked down hard.
- MicahWedemeyer 17y agoVery good to know :)
- weaksauce 17y agoI have heard of Dreamhost accounts being disabled(I can not remember if they deleted the account too) for this. Edit: This was actually a reply to duskwuff's comment.
- sreitshamer 17y agoUncomfortable with the cloud in general or with the current cloud-based offerings? I'm uncomfortable with Mozy, Backblaze, Carbonite because there's no way to verify they've encrypted my data, stored it redundantly, etc.
- chancho 17y agoYeah rsync.net by far looks like the best functionality, but they are almost 10x more expensive than Amazon or Rackspace, $1.20/Gb/Mo vs. $0.15/Gb/Mo. For 20-30 gigs of photos and movies, that starts to add up.