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Cloud backup
Hello, has anyone found a reliable and cheap cloud backup system. ( CHEAP ) being the word. I was looking at http://onlinestoragesolution.com which has ftp and rsync rsync being the preferred pr...
I've done a huge hack on my (nice shiny new) NVX, and installed the fuse filesystem driver. Then the S3 filesystem on top of that, and I can now backup to Amazon S3.
So far this is costing me about $2.50 / month - my main use is to backup my subversion s/w development repository, and all my family digital photos. This totals about 30GB.
The downsides: You have to hack the ReadyNAS, and you (so far) have to invoke the backup to Amazon S3 manually from the command line. One day, given sufficient time and enthusiasm I'll get it all integrated into Frontview using the developer kit APIs, but that might be a way off yet.
So far this is costing me about $2.50 / month - my main use is to backup my subversion s/w development repository, and all my family digital photos. This totals about 30GB.
The downsides: You have to hack the ReadyNAS, and you (so far) have to invoke the backup to Amazon S3 manually from the command line. One day, given sufficient time and enthusiasm I'll get it all integrated into Frontview using the developer kit APIs, but that might be a way off yet.
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