Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Mon, 04 May 2015 03:23:48 -0500, Dale 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.  ;-)

You only need to upload it once, so it doesn't really matter how long it
takes. After that you do incremental backups. I use app-backup/duplicity
which not only takes care of incremental backups and communicating with
S3, but also encrypts everything with GPG. No one would know you were
uploading goat porn :)


-- 
Neil Bothwick

When there's a will, I want to be in it.

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