begin  quoting Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade as of Wed, May 23, 2007 at 02:18:30PM -0700:
> On May 23, 2007, at 2:06 PM, Tracy R Reed wrote:
> >Consider Amazon S3. Easy to sign up for, easy to use, simple  
> >billing. You will pay a few cents a month to store your relatively  
> >tiny personal svn repository.  It is off site and you can use a  
> >tool called s3sync (s3sync.net) in a cronjob to copy it up every  
> >night. I used to do the copy-to-external-drive-when-I-remember-it  
> >thing and I still try to do that but I use S3 as another form of  
> >totally automated off-site backup. I believe it all has to be  
> >automated end to end or it won't get done on a daily basis. S3 lets  
> >me do that.

Twenty cents per gigabyte to upload, fifteen cents per gigabyte a
month, yes?

> what about data security... if someone else gets access to my S3  
> storage, what's to keep them from extracting all my files?  Are there  
> any mechanisms for adding encryption?

Encrypt your tarball before you upload it.

> I'll pay a couple dollars a month for backups...

Yeah, that's something that's looking to get on my TODO list.

-- 
Although I'd upload a tarball of a CVS repository instead.
Stewart Stremler


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