Re: Experience with cloud-based storage [was: Re: Annual Warning; Check Yur Backups]

2014-03-25 Thread Joshua Marsh
With the new pricing for Google cloud storage, it seems like a really viable option. It would be just $10/mo for 500GB of DRA. I've fiddled with their API and it's fairly simple. It could easily be added to a script that does the backup of your database or file system. On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 5:4

Re: Experience with cloud-based storage [was: Re: Annual Warning; Check Yur Backups]

2014-03-24 Thread Nicholas Stewart
I was looking into this today and found a few possibilities: $20/mo for 500 GB https://backupsy.com/#faq-technical $15/mo for 500 GB http://buyvm.net/ (click on "KVM / Windows / Storage") $13/mo for 400 GB https://www.cloudshards.com/backupvpshosting.php You can probably google for coupon codes a

Re: Experience with cloud-based storage [was: Re: Annual Warning; Check Yur Backups]

2014-03-24 Thread Ryan Simpkins
On Fri, March 21, 2014 16:12, Chris wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:46 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: > >> Depends on the amount of data, but I've had great luck with AWS S3fs and >> glacier for dealing with backups. >> > > I'm curious to know how well this works (economically and practically) at >

Re: Annual Warning; Check Yur Backups

2014-03-22 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said "Ryan Simpkins" on Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:46:51 -0600: > You may now commence the public lashings and/or flame-wars over which > backup solution is superior Has anyone ever experimented or currently use datahaven? https://pypi.python.org/pypi/datahaven/ http://datahaven.net/ Or how

Experience with cloud-based storage [was: Re: Annual Warning; Check Yur Backups]

2014-03-21 Thread Chris
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:46 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: > Depends on the amount of data, but I've had great luck with AWS S3fs and > glacier for dealing with backups. > I'm curious to know how well this works (economically and practically) at various scales. Would you be willing to share some (r

Re: Annual Warning; Check Yur Backups

2014-03-21 Thread S. Dale Morrey
Depends on the amount of data, but I've had great luck with AWS S3fs and glacier for dealing with backups. Cron runs a daily backup snapshot and copies it to s3fs s3 expires the data after 4 months and the space magically re-appears on the disk. Meanwhile it's safely stored in the cloud and glacie

Re: Annual Warning; Check Yur Backups

2014-03-21 Thread Joshua Marsh
For a while, we solved this issue by putting our backups on the same partition as our database. We would rsync, but not delete. Our customers were great at notifying us when the disk was full. On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Ryan Simpkins wrote: > Don't let this be you > > Then: Backup ser

Re: Annual Warning; Check Yur Backups

2014-03-21 Thread Steve Alligood
For them, not for you. Their restore client sucks rocks. On Mar 21, 2014, at 11:40 AM, Doran L. Barton wrote: > On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:00:09 -0600 > Kyle Waters wrote: > >> I tell my students if they haven't tested their backups they don't have >> backups. > > Backups?! That's so 2000s. The

Re: Annual Warning; Check Yur Backups

2014-03-21 Thread Doran L. Barton
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:00:09 -0600 Kyle Waters wrote: > I tell my students if they haven't tested their backups they don't have > backups. Backups?! That's so 2000s. These days, with the NSA, data backups are a completely unnecessary thing of the past! -- Doran L. Barton - Linux, Perl, Web,

Re: Annual Warning; Check Yur Backups

2014-03-21 Thread Jonathan Duncan
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Kyle Waters wrote: > On 03/21/2014 10:46 AM, Ryan Simpkins wrote: > >> Don't let this be you >> >> Then: Backup server became full, backup script silently stopped >> functioning... >> four months later I finally find out when it is time to do a restore. >> >>

Re: Annual Warning; Check Yur Backups

2014-03-21 Thread Kyle Waters
On 03/21/2014 10:46 AM, Ryan Simpkins wrote: Don't let this be you Then: Backup server became full, backup script silently stopped functioning... four months later I finally find out when it is time to do a restore. I tell my students if they haven't tested their backups they don't have

Annual Warning; Check Yur Backups

2014-03-21 Thread Ryan Simpkins
Don't let this be you Then: Backup server became full, backup script silently stopped functioning... four months later I finally find out when it is time to do a restore. Now: New fancy backup partition created, updated alerting to notify if it happens again, send e-mail to local IT group rem