From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ic47Z-00066J-4V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:06:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8UItBmS031604; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:55:11 GMT Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.180]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8UIkYFv018568 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:46:35 GMT Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k34so4382175wah for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:46:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=Tm1Ro75RSGVTyC/QJEfhXVYA4x/VLzhCfsMRIdcelfM=; b=RgoYGyFsHD4NqroGv4USMoM+FH+sKl1Q5fdb0+GhiM+mRyrOPRVqwZ3nLDyvpkyBsP9NCL56v3Vr1bwsjjseKE6cnN0jVrPcfLVIuS4D4lkyD3NxQsSbQJcgBs/L8hfAgqJlVjrfi8sJITVAiKEB8xxClhRn3nCOqq0Rzcu8+Rw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=EARRlYg0xsvlcwACXr+xh2p+U4T0pQYU945/nhDVGxjYWpSMj26KoGi+Dd9XmZErgLPD6r3n8quvYwvB1hXn53jMtlU3UKoSGZnglGKN1Qmk3RZqQbaAVcewlS3GOPna8i21W5YtsE+wsEXwRZyfNX8GDOe88DIwCHiiGjPeZTY= Received: by 10.115.91.2 with SMTP id t2mr1500796wal.1191177993936; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:46:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.175.9 with HTTP; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:46:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49bf44f10709301146n5bed5c9fsfb1cffb92a09d10@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:46:33 -0700 From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Backups In-Reply-To: <8092F0B0-95F4-41FA-87B1-D72FF2B55556@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f10709291526s46c5c1ebrb34a7171215a3db2@mail.gmail.com> <46FF1A46.10903@lix-world.net> <49bf44f10709300836s790edbfbrac69e84bc36d1d66@mail.gmail.com> <49bf44f10709300933m6577d64csf1709c324541b48a@mail.gmail.com> <8092F0B0-95F4-41FA-87B1-D72FF2B55556@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: f15ace15-233c-4e49-84ce-300a8c6ca7ed X-Archives-Hash: 460b269b38f91b92af785a3228028c75 > > Where do you guys store your backups? Leaving backups on a DVD in the > > same apartment as the machines doesn't make too much sense to me. > > Maybe I should mail em to my parents every week or something? > > > > - Grant > > Offsite backups are a good idea if your data is important to you. I > have several servers around the world so setting up rsync mirrors is > pretty painless. Then I burn to DVD remotely.. (I have trained people > enough so that when the tray opens they replace the DVD with a blank) > > You might want to look at doing a stage 4 backup and then sending > that file to one of those online storage services. A quick google > shows there are many out there offering 2-25GB of free storage. There > are some non-free services designed specifically for backup where you > don't pay to upload but do pay when you want to get your data (which > given it is a backup I assume you would be highly motivated to pay if > a restore is required) A few months back I looked into Amazon's S3 to > automate offsite storage of backups. I never implemented anything > though. > > I would encrypt anything sent to one of those online storage services. Encryption yeah. How do you encrypt your stuff? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list