On Nov 6, 2007 11:52 AM, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bob La Quey wrote: > > A Gentoo based PC aimed at the masses. It uses > > Amazon S3 for backup. > > http://www.zonbu.com/ > > I also use Amazon S3 for backup and I heartily endorse the service. It > is cheap and easy. You can pre-encrypt the volumes that you upload if > you wish and you can also do backups to another device or service. I > backup to Amazon AND to local external USB disks. Amazon is my off-site > and the USB disks stay in the same room with the computer it is backing > up, just not attached. So if my house burns down in a wildfire > (inconceivable! ;) I still have a copy of it all on S3.
You mentioned scripts for this IIRR. What is their status? > > Using it for a PC backup system is a great idea. Especially since most > people don't even do one level of backup. I agree. For most people this is a big up ... but we are back to the security/privacy question since I suspect it is _not_ encrypted locally before transmission to S3. BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
