<div dir="ltr"><div>For this purpose I am using an old desktop computer equipped with big enough disk and a cron job to automatically fetch backups from remote servers when it is switched on. Yes, it store data in a fixed location, but given that it is only meant to backups, I can live with it for now. By the way, the same computer also has a mysql instance that is used to extract backups and rebuild databases locally, which is good or testing that the backups actually works.<br>
<br></div>While Dropbox required some propriety software to sync, I've heard that Google Drive has better API. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Nadav Har'El <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nyh@math.technion.ac.il" target="_blank">nyh@math.technion.ac.il</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi, I'm looking for a "cloud backup" solution for Linux, where I'll be<br>
able to use "rsync", "sftp" (and similar utilities) to a remote server<br>
to back up by files, and when needed, look at individual files (e.g.,<br>
using sshfs) or restore all my files.<br>
<br>
I am *not* looking for a solution based on special purpose (and usually,<br>
closed source) utilities or daemons that attempt to decide for me what to<br>
back up and when - I want to be of full control of this process.<br>
<br>
For the last 3 years, I've been using the services of "<a href="http://rsync.net" target="_blank">rsync.net</a>", and<br>
they're doing exactly what I want. However, the storage price I pay them<br>
is 40 cents per gigabyte per month, is 4 times that of Amazon's, so I<br>
think there must be a cheaper solution.<br>
<br>
One thing I've been thinking - wouldn't it be fairly easy to store my<br>
files on Amazon's S3 or even more simply EBS, and then run rsync server<br>
on a micro instance on EC2? Sounds like a cheap, convenient backup<br>
solution for Linux diehards like myself, and I wonder if anyone has<br>
done this before and then I won't need to code this myself?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Nadav.<br>
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