Cloud Backup

[Nadav Har'El]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: Cloud Backup":
> Google lets you pay for a minimal time of 15 minutes.
> ProfitBricks charges by 3 minute chunks.

Thanks, good to know.
However, for my purposes, 60 cents (one hour a day) vs 15 cents (15
minutes a day) are not big differentiator.

> You are neglecting the most important cost: of data transfer. See "To Cloud
> Or Not To Cloud? Musings On Costs and Viability."

This would definitely *not* be the most important cost for me.
I'm doing incremental backup never deleting anything (rsync --backup
with a new --backup-dir every time) on rsync.net for 3 years, and so far my
total is 15 GB. This means that over 3 years I sent to them roughly 15
GB, and requested a tiny fraction of that. In Amazon, transer into EC2
is actually free, but even if it weren't, at their most expensive
rate of 12 cents per gigabyte, transferring those 15 gigabytes would
cost me 0.12*15 = $1.80 for the 3 years doesn't sound much compared to
the $0.09*15 = $1.60 I'll pay every month for storing the data.

Restoring the *whole* thing will also cost me $1.80 - again not much of
considering the use case (if I lose all my data, $1.8 is negligable) and
not much compared to the usual monthly cost.

The situation would be different, of course, for people who generate
gigabytes of new data every month. I'm not one of these people.

Thanks,

Nadav.

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