From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1096E138CC5 for ; Mon, 4 May 2015 10:57:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34222E0958; Mon, 4 May 2015 10:57:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DC263E094F for ; Mon, 4 May 2015 10:57:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 26008 invoked by uid 3782); 4 May 2015 10:57:18 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (p548A4DEC.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.138.77.236]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Mon, 04 May 2015 12:57:16 +0200 Received: (qmail 4192 invoked by uid 1000); 4 May 2015 10:57:27 -0000 Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 10:57:27 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions Message-ID: <20150504105726.GB3902@acm.fritz.box> References: <553F474E.4040101@gmail.com> <553FA0DD.1090101@gmail.com> <20150428162448.160e1683@digimed.co.uk> <55407695.7000808@gmail.com> <20150429085217.38864030@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <5547221E.4020809@gmail.com> <20150504084626.26fbbbd8@digimed.co.uk> <55472C94.1080606@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <55472C94.1080606@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: 70dce06d-7463-4602-b48e-50a3af7dcd8c X-Archives-Hash: 1100bba43b18e4e53e76a58a8a14b00c Hello, Dale. On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 03:23:48AM -0500, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> What I wish, I had a second puter in a outbuilding that I could copy > >> to over ethernet or something. May help in the event of a house > >> fire etc. > > You have, it's called Amazon S3 :) It's a lot cheaper than a second > > computer, and a lot more reliable. > My internet is way to slow for that. It would take weeks maybe a month > to upload all this stuff. I have DSL but it is the basic package. If I > were on cable or had a real fast DSL, maybe. Thing is, I really don't > want some of my stuff on the internet anyway. ;-) For the stuff you don't want on the internet, encrypt it! I've recently started using ccrypt. It takes MUCH less time to encrypt things than it does to transmit them over the net to a server - for my ~4.6 Gb backup, it takes about 3 minutes to encrypt. Sending it to my backup server then takes the best par of an hour (at 10 Mbit/s upload speed). I suspect your upload speed is way less, but if you had a few hundred megabytes of really special stuff, this route might be useful. > I'll come up with something tho. > Dale > :-) :-) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).