Dearest List,
Flog me if this doesn't belong, but the other day I was at a family
dinner, and someone started wishing that they could buy an external hard
drive, hook it up to the computer at their parents house, and somehow be
able to backup files to it over the internets. They specifically
mentioned their distaste for "rolling backup" services like Carbonite,
where your files are deleted from Carbonite's servers when they are
deleted from your computer.
I thought it best not to mention the $10 surplus sale pentium 3 that I
outfitted with linux and stuck at my dad's house in Boise for my
rsyncing needs, because, let's face it, that is not going to work for
average family member.
Or is it?
What are our recommendations for cheap, massive (meaning 80-500+ GB)
offsite storage that is dead simple to use from any OS?
And I am talking only about manual storage here, not some "magical"
rolling backup system. If someone wants it to be automated, they can
find a program to do it to the internet-attached storage.
I would prefer to get a suggestion for an external drive enclosure that
hooks up with some online service so it handles the Router/NAT traversal
to the offsite site (a/la logmein) without having to mess with dyndns,
port forwarding and the like. However, I wouldn't be opposed to
suggestions like:
JungleDisk
S3 filesystem plugins (linux/mac/windows/BeOS/solaris/AmigaOS/haha,j/k)
Linux Server with Unison (although that is pushing the boundaries of
what grandma can configure)
How do normal people even wrap their heads around this problem?
-David Litster, vagrant.
P.S. My apologies for calling people on this list "not normal". If you
are offended, I suppose you could say we're in the top 4%!
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