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 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
