Cloud Backup

[Tomer Cohen]

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.

While Dropbox required some propriety software to sync, I've heard that
Google Drive has better API.


On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il>wrote:

> Hi, I'm looking for a "cloud backup" solution for Linux, where I'll be
> able to use "rsync", "sftp" (and similar utilities) to a remote server
> to back up by files, and when needed, look at individual files (e.g.,
> using sshfs) or restore all my files.
>
> I am *not* looking for a solution based on special purpose (and usually,
> closed source) utilities or daemons that attempt to decide for me what to
> back up and when - I want to be of full control of this process.
>
> For the last 3 years, I've been using the services of "rsync.net", and
> they're doing exactly what I want. However, the storage price I pay them
> is 40 cents per gigabyte per month, is 4 times that of Amazon's, so I
> think there must be a cheaper solution.
>
> One thing I've been thinking - wouldn't it be fairly easy to store my
> files on Amazon's S3 or even more simply EBS, and then run rsync server
> on a micro instance on EC2? Sounds like a cheap, convenient backup
> solution for Linux diehards like myself, and I wonder if anyone has
> done this before and then I won't need to code this myself?
>
> Thanks,
> Nadav.
>
> --
> Nadav Har'El                        |      Saturday, Feb 23 2013, 13 Adar
> 5773
> nyh at math.technion.ac.il
> |-----------------------------------------
> Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Creativity consists of coming up with
> http://nadav.harel.org.il           |many ideas, not just that one great
> idea.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Linux-il mailing list
> Linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il
> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
>



-- 
Tomer Cohen
http://tomercohen.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/pipermail/linux-il/attachments/20130223/afff3951/attachment.html>