Hi Shawn, For something of this size I've always found that the price of cloud storage to be insane. Amazon for instance would be about $380 a month for 4 TB. The more cost effective way of doing it is to host it on your own hardware in an offsite location. In terms of the initial seeding of the 4tb, the easiest/quickest way of doing it is to make a local copy of your data, ship that copy to the offsite location, and copy the data locally at that point. Otherwise you could be looking at several weeks to transfer that amount, as you would want to throttle your upload during business hours, instead of running full out 24 hours a day, and crippling your business internet.
I suppose I should throw out there, that the company I work for offers co-located NAS storage in downtown Calgary, with a dedicated VPN link to your site, for exactly this type of scenario. Use whatever method you prefer for transferring the files over the VPN, there is no vendor lock in, the only limitation is that the space provided is for a typical 4 to 6 bay NAS. If you were thinking of building your own rack mount box than the co-lo prices would be more expensive. -----Original message----- > From:Shawn <sgro...@open2space.com <mailto:sgro...@open2space.com> > > Sent: Friday 27th September 2013 11:34 > To: CLUG General <clug-talk@clug.ca <mailto:clug-talk@clug.ca> > > Subject: [clug-talk] offsite backups > > > Hi all, > > I'm not sure if this is OT or not. But I'm looking options for doing an > offsite backup of 4+ TB of data. I don't know if a cloud solution would > be the best choice, or a dedicated virtual server somewhere, or if there > is a better choice. I'm not looking for the "cheapest" solution, but > for a reasonable solution for a business. > > I think this may be partly on topic for the list because I can see ways > to do this with a Linux box and a simple rsync script, but I'd like to > learn more about the professional solutions to this problem. > > The big issue is the initial transfer of 4+TB of data. > > Thanks for any input. > > Shawn > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca <mailto:clug-talk@clug.ca> > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > <http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca> > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php > <http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php> ) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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