Also, keep in mind your *upload* max rate... If you have a 10 Megabit upload max, for example, 500 GigaBytes, will take you no less than 4 15:06:40 to upload it - 4 days, 15 hours, 6 minutes, and 40 seconds if you can achieve and sustain your max upload rate (without compression). 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/b5afe09d/attachment.html>