Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Rich Freeman wrote:
> I don't have anything on the cloud to backup too.  That would likely be
> a good idea but I can't afford anything pricey, which is why I hadn't
> bought a backup drive before now either.  Plus, something I'd prefer to
> keep under my thumb.  Heck, some things here are encrypted, bank info
> and such.  Also, while I have DSL, it ain't real speedy.  Backing up
> that much data over my connection could take a while, like days, maybe
> even a week or more.


I put my backups on Amazon S3 reduced-redundancy - it is a few cents
per GB per month.  I think I have something like 20-30GB backed up.
Oh, if you need to actually retrieve it that will cost you 10 cents
per GB, but frankly if my house burned down that would be the least of
my concerns.

I'd only use the cloud to back up critical data.  If you want to back
up your mythtv and mp3 collection, then you're going to be uploading a
LOT of data and paying quite a bit to store it.  If you want to be
storing TB of data offsite there are better ways of doing it.

The advantage of something like S3 is that it is always there, which
means you stick a duplicity script in your crontab and just
periodically check up on it.  You don't have to remember to do your
backups.  It just isn't practical to use it for more than a few dozen
GB depending on your incremental strategy.

I also have a 50Mbps outbound connection, which doesn't hurt.

Your next best option is to find a friend with similar needs and give
each other a place to upload your encrypted backups to.  That will
just cost you drive space, but if you're both planning on backing up
1TB of data it will still cost you the one-time drive purchase.

If you want a quick cloud-capable backup solution, I'd look at
duplicity.  I just wish it had options for Google Drive (it supposedly
does, but as far as I can tell it doesn't work, at least not with a
two factor application password).

Rich