On Aug 13, 2011, at 10:44 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: > On Aug 13, 2011, at 1:12 AM, Randy Bush wrote: > >> charles skipped what i see as a highly critical question, personal >> backup. > > I've been wondering this as well. > > My home backups are somewhat large and not yet offsite due to their size. > (~4.7TB). > > This is due to both purchased digital media storage and photography. These > are sufficiently large that the problem is harder to resolve, as nobody > "makes" a 5TB drive I can ship to a colo. Drive failures in the "backups" > host also become painful to work with as I'm cheap so the ZFS pool isn't 100% > mirrored. > > Some machines use netatalk plus the "defaults write > com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1" hack. > > I've considered just subbing to backblaze as it's "cheap" on a single-host > basis, but need something closer to ~5-7TB plus some room for growth (maybe > 250G-500G/year). I have considered just trenching copper/fiber (see other > thread) to a neighbor and placing the host there, but it's not much > geographical diversity, plus if the neighbor moves it becomes fun to > re-explain what you are doing. (worse if they're non-techie). > > The biggest problem I've seen is with a "cloud"/"tubes" provider, my upload > speed puts the 4.7TB initial sync somewhere around 145 days (assuming 3Mb/s > upload). > > Is anyone aware of a solution for this that is sensible $$$ without rolling > my own (i'm estimating about 2-3k to do this...)? And preferably costs maybe > $ or $$?
Stretching the definition of "cloud" (why not, everyone else has), you can include SmugMug, Flixter, Picassa, etc. For $20-$40/year (yes, _year_), some of these allow infinite uploads. Moreover, while you only get a few MB/s per session, you can open multiple simultaneous uploads. I've filled my upstream pipe uploading things - which still takes days, but not 100s of days. Anyway, this is one way to get an off-site backup, lower your b/w requirements on your personal server, and even get someone else to do things like make thumbnails, multiple sizes / magnifications, allow (paid) prints to be made, etc., etc. -- TTFN, patrick
