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I've been waiting on this for a long time. Now Dropbox might actually be a viable, affordable off-site backup solution.

ptwiggens 12y ago
Dropbox isn't ideal for backup at all. Look into Crashplan. Client-side encryption, unlimited versioning, never deletes files, and only $6/month for truly unlimited backup.
- jonnynezbo 12y ago
  I'm already on the CrashPlan Family Plan. I love it. In all reality, I doubt I will get rid of Crashplan any time soon.
  - Soyuz 12y ago
    CrashPlan is great and encrypted at rest and transmission. But, I prefer services outside US
- StavrosK 12y ago
  Does it have an OSS Linux client, even headless? All I want is to encryptedly back up some directories on my home server, but nothing* really does that. I use SpiderOak at the moment, but it's not OSS. * Except attic, but I'd rather pay for a service as important as this (I don't trust the remote server to not lose files): http://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/ http://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/
  - toomuchtodo 12y ago
    http://www.tarsnap.com/ http://www.tarsnap.com/ http://rsync.net/ http://rsync.net/
    - StavrosK 12y ago
      Thanks, but both of those are extremely expensive for backing up photos and various files (100 GB worth).
      - deleted 12y ago
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      - rsync 12y ago
        Just a note since we're on the topic ... - HN Discount for new customers is 10c per GB, per month. No charges for usage or traffic, etc. - We just began announcing 3c pricing for 1PB and above. That may be more space than you require, however. We've adjusted our pricing quite a bit in the last 30 days in conjunction with offering our PB filesystems, etc. It's always worth emailing us.
        hemancuso 12y ago
        Curious if the multi-pb accounts are in a single flat namespace. Or even the same filesystem... 1PB of ZFS seems scary
        toomuchtodo 12y ago
        > 1PB of ZFS seems scary Why so?
        hemancuso 12y ago
        I meant in one filesystem. No obvious way to construct a single zpool anywhere near that big. And if not one filesystem, curious how it would work in practice.
        rsync 12y ago
        We currently allow 1.1 PB in a single "namespace" (zpool). There are non-obvious ways to make a petabyte-sized zpool non-scary ... but even with those employed we still utilize raidz3 and have contingencies for rollbacks. edit: for obvious reasons, that 1.1 PB number will grow by 50% in the very near future...
  - bentcorner 12y ago
    I can't say one way or another if the client is OSS, but I do know you can run it headless, I've done it before. IIRC, you need to tweak a non-headless client to direct it to the headless instance (some config file to point to the server vs localhost) and everything works from there.
  - AndrewAtCode42 12y ago
    No OSS linux client, but we do have a closed source one. CrashPlan Does work headless[1], but note that that setup out of the scope for our support team. 1: https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/Latest/Configuring/Configuring_A_Headless_Client https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/Latest/Configuring/Conf...

Dropbox isn't ideal for backup at all. Look into Crashplan. Client-side encryption, unlimited versioning, never deletes files, and only $6/month for truly unlimited backup.

jonnynezbo 12y ago
I'm already on the CrashPlan Family Plan. I love it. In all reality, I doubt I will get rid of Crashplan any time soon.
- Soyuz 12y ago
  CrashPlan is great and encrypted at rest and transmission. But, I prefer services outside US
StavrosK 12y ago
Does it have an OSS Linux client, even headless? All I want is to encryptedly back up some directories on my home server, but nothing* really does that. I use SpiderOak at the moment, but it's not OSS. * Except attic, but I'd rather pay for a service as important as this (I don't trust the remote server to not lose files): http://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/ http://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/
- toomuchtodo 12y ago
  http://www.tarsnap.com/ http://www.tarsnap.com/ http://rsync.net/ http://rsync.net/
  - StavrosK 12y ago
    Thanks, but both of those are extremely expensive for backing up photos and various files (100 GB worth).
    - deleted 12y ago
      [deleted]
    - rsync 12y ago
      Just a note since we're on the topic ... - HN Discount for new customers is 10c per GB, per month. No charges for usage or traffic, etc. - We just began announcing 3c pricing for 1PB and above. That may be more space than you require, however. We've adjusted our pricing quite a bit in the last 30 days in conjunction with offering our PB filesystems, etc. It's always worth emailing us.
      - hemancuso 12y ago
        Curious if the multi-pb accounts are in a single flat namespace. Or even the same filesystem... 1PB of ZFS seems scary
        toomuchtodo 12y ago
        > 1PB of ZFS seems scary Why so?
        hemancuso 12y ago
        I meant in one filesystem. No obvious way to construct a single zpool anywhere near that big. And if not one filesystem, curious how it would work in practice.
        rsync 12y ago
        We currently allow 1.1 PB in a single "namespace" (zpool). There are non-obvious ways to make a petabyte-sized zpool non-scary ... but even with those employed we still utilize raidz3 and have contingencies for rollbacks. edit: for obvious reasons, that 1.1 PB number will grow by 50% in the very near future...
- bentcorner 12y ago
  I can't say one way or another if the client is OSS, but I do know you can run it headless, I've done it before. IIRC, you need to tweak a non-headless client to direct it to the headless instance (some config file to point to the server vs localhost) and everything works from there.
- AndrewAtCode42 12y ago
  No OSS linux client, but we do have a closed source one. CrashPlan Does work headless[1], but note that that setup out of the scope for our support team. 1: https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/Latest/Configuring/Configuring_A_Headless_Client https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/Latest/Configuring/Conf...