I have been looking at how I backup my data at home, and one thing that always comes to mind is how to get these backups of site, and preferrably into a different geographical area easily.
Well Amazon S3 storage was always on my mind, but recently dreamhost have gone crazy with their storage offerings. I know have over 400Gb of space with over 4Tb of transfer for a small outlay each month.
A cost comparison has been done here by Joseph Scott showing how the two compare:
http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/archives/2006/10/03/amazon-s3-vs-dreamhost/
I am going to be looking at implementing something with dreamhost I think, I am not a major corporation, I am a home user with some data so I think dreamhost will be fine.
Bacula and Backuppc are two projects that run on Debian that I will be checking out, and first and foremost I want to make sure that my data is encrypted quite strongly. Though I am probably going to put up my photo archive just as is, to have easy access when needed. More posts to come on this.
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So, what did you end up using? S3 or dreamhost?
Any feedback?
Cheers.
I ended up going with dreamhost. I am using a program called knox on my Mac which creates an encrypted folder, and it can do automated backups to mounted drives. I then mount my dreamhost space using MacFUSE and SSHFS.
Its a good solution and very cheap.