On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Jake Vickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Christophe Kalt wrote: > > i'm used to doing backups internally, but i've recently been asked > > twice for backup recommendations for small business setups with > > relatively small data sets to backup. There are quite a few options > > out there, does any one have any recommendation for this? Things i've > > played with previously were more geared towards individuals than > > businesses. > > > > Here we use just plain old rsync (even on the Windows DC's, via cygwin) > and pull the data from an offsite backup server using shared keys for > authentication. > Gives us plenty of flexability and scriptable to do whatever we > need/don't need. First sync is a long one (as will almost all solutions) > and the rest are only what's changed (minus any excluded files we don't > want, such as *.tiff, Thumbs.db, etc.) > I've been doing rsync to an Amazon EC2 instance, along these lines: http://www.freewisdom.org/en/all/entries/2008/09/17/backup_with_rsync/ It's costing me about $20/mo to do a daily backup to a 100 GB partition on Amazon EC2, and then keep 2 snapshots of that partition on Amazon S3. -Brent
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