I don't know what constitutes normal: admittedly, but if they're normal in such a way that they're willing to read a quick how-to and spend an hour setting it up, then I do recommend rsyncing with old hardware, and send them a link to the howto.
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:57 AM, David Litster <[email protected]> wrote: > 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%! > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > -- Todd Millecam
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