Have you looked at AWS as a backup solution? https://www.quora.com/Is-it -a-good-strategy-to-backup-your-data-on-AWS-for-offsite-backups They boast eleven 9s of reliability - that's less than 1 one-thousandths of a second of unavailability in a year, where a year equates to 365.25 days, or 31447600 seconds. On Mon, 2018-11-12 at 22:43 -0600, gregrwm wrote: > i'm considering prospects for offsite backup. your comments are most > welcome. what options are available and sensible? requirements > specify metadata, filenames, and paths should be encrypted prior to > sending to the offsite archive. encrypted communication together > with encrypted storage might satisfy. perhaps it's silly picky to > point out there's a moment in between when it's unencrypted. > > an attractive solution would be a vps with mega cheap storage. but i > doubt they can come anywhere near the capacity and prices of the > likes of rsync.net. or can they? > > backuppc is doing well on-site. i like that it does not re-transfer > files already backed up, even when doing a full backup. however it > must run on the backup storage server. i doubt that's possible with > services like rsync.net. or is it? > > a strategy that comes to mind is to rsync the backuppc storage > heirarchy (can omit the ?(c)pool). last i knew, asking rsync to > mirror such a sea of hardlinks caused it to demand obscene amounts of > ram. who knows, might work, might not. newer versions of rsync > might do better, i dunno yet. > > duplicity certainly is popular, and provides encryption. i doubt it > is as efficient about bandwidth, or storage, as backuppc, > particularly regarding full backups. or is it? > > if there's a trove somewhere that addresses such questions, please > point. > tia, > greg > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20181113/957ef4ae/attachment.html>