Re: [a0] Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Looking for best online backup solutions

[John covici]

I didn't see a feature list nora corporate location any place.

on Thursday 01/29/2009 Dominic(address@hidden) wrote
 > Sticking with the commercial product theme for a moment: although I 
 > don't use it, and don't know anyone who does, I think Ahsay Backup 
 > http://www.ahsay.com looks a very good commercial solution. It seems to 
 > be fully optimised for transfer and storage and seems to work with 
 > 'forward diffs' i.e. it stores an original copy of a file and then 
 > stores incremental or differential files which can be combined with the 
 > original to create a later version of the same file. The backup server 
 > conducts regular checks to ensure consistency of the data. All files are 
 > encrypted before being sent to backup, so they are safe from the prying 
 > eyes of the backup server administrator. There is a free edition for 
 > backing up 1 or 2 computers to your own offsite (or onsite) backup 
 > server. They offer more powerful options (including replication servers) 
 > and are apparently the backbone for remote backup services offered by 
 > thousands of providers around the world - they even provide a list of 
 > them. If you don't fancy setting up your own backup server I guess you 
 > could use one of their customers' services.
 > 
 > Sorry if that sounds like advertising puff (which it isn't). I'd be 
 > interested to know if anyone has used this product?
 > 
 > Dominic
 > 
 > Ryan How wrote:
 > > Oh and I forgot to mention jungledisk (http://www.jungledisk.com/) 
 > > with Amazon S3. But you'll be looking at about $50 a month for storage 
 > > costs for S3 for 300 gigs. Anyone ever tried rdiff-backup onto 
 > > jungledisk ?, I know a lot of people use rsync.
 > >
 > > Ryan How wrote:
 > >> I use vembu storgrid for some of my clients. (http://vembu.com). The 
 > >> free version doesn't let you back up over the net, but you can back 
 > >> up to an external drive or another pc on the same subnet.
 > >>
 > >> Another one I came across is buddybackup which is a peer to peer 
 > >> online backup (free). But you might be battling to back up 300GB on 
 > >> there :)
 > >>
 > >> They are commercial, similar functionality to rdiff-backup, vembu 
 > >> even uses the rsync algorithm, but as dominic said, nicer GUI, also 
 > >> have good reporting, notifications in case of vembu.
 > >>
 > >> For video backup I would reckon just get an external drive and 
 > >> archive that kind of stuff. Use online backup for smaller, often 
 > >> changing files. Much more cost effective. Also downloading 100's of 
 > >> gigs in the even of a crash is not fun.
 > >>
 > >> Ryan
 > >>
 > >>
 > >> Dominic wrote:
 > >>> JoeRyan wrote:
 > >>>> I am new to this stuff, and I usually work in a Windows 
 > >>>> environment. What would be the best way for me to secure my files, 
 > >>>> and make sure I don't lose everything if my computer crashes? I 
 > >>>> have about 300 gigs of data, and one video file that is 30+ gigs 
 > >>>> large.
 > >>>> What about online backup (http://www.backupright.com)? But I've 
 > >>>> also heard about these products 
 > >>>> (http://pcbackupreview.com/backupchoices.php) and this one 
 > >>>> (http://www.carbonite.com) also work well.
 > >>>>   
 > >>> All of your choices are commercial (pay for) solutions. While I was 
 > >>> investigating the same topic, I wrote a page here 
 > >>> http://www.edendevelopments.co.uk/rdiff-backup.php which might give 
 > >>> you a few leads particularly on open source alternatives.
 > >>>
 > >>> Generally the commercial solutions offer less functionality than the 
 > >>> best open source alternatives, but they are easier to use, there 
 > >>> should be less chance of them going wrong (?) and there is someone 
 > >>> else to blame if they do!
 > >>>
 > >>> But as a loyal rdiff-backup user I say the best is rdiff-backup 
 > >>> http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/. Of course!
 > >>>
 > >>> Dominic
 > >>>
 > >>>
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