Dreamhost backup plans

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.


2 Responses to “Dreamhost backup plans”

  1. Guille Says:

    So, what did you end up using? S3 or DreamHost?

    Any feedback?

    Cheers.

  2. timc3 Says:

    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.

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