Remote Storage.

[f0xy]

just wondering if anyone uses remote storage for external backup, I.e a web file storage service.

I remember seeing one ages ago, which im sure was affiliated with yahoo, but i cant remember its name, or find it. They were silly cheap per GB, and cheaper the more you buy....and pretty big repuration IIRC, cant remember the name for the life of me though!

I dont care about location, going to be using rSync to move the data overnight, just cant remember the place's name........anyone got any names?

Dont need any web interfaces, any of that gunk, just need space and shell access, which is what they^ had, but i cant find it

 

[Daz]

It was probably Amazon S3.

 

[f0xy]

yep indeed it was cheers.

 

[Daz]

Out of any of them, I think that's pretty much the most well regarded one.

I don't use any remote storage though, so not sure

And good work using rsync.. nice to see it mentioned on ClioSport

 

[f0xy]

currently using tape libraries, they have been fine and relaiable, but we are using old drives, and I dont really want to splash out on a brand spanking new drive, works out cheaper to use remote storage for the size of the place

 

[Daz]

Ah.
Tape is always the winner though

Once you work out cost of bandwidth etc. How much you transfering?

 

[f0xy]

the max that will be stored is 40gb or very close to it

would just do a full backup to the remote site, then incremental from there on.....apart from a few bits and bobs, some MSSQL databases and MYSQL databases, which are just under 1GB in total, they would be backed up daily...

probably have around 40-45gb sat out there at a time, the databases are held for 2 weeks, then ones older than that are removed (we usually compress + burn them to CD/DVD incase they are ever needed) so 15gb of whats out there would be two weeks worth of databases