What company is this? I/we are looking are looking for co-lo (specifically for storage) options.
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Andrew Robinson <and...@boohahaonline.com>wrote: > ** > > 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> > > Sent: Friday 27th September 2013 11:34 > > > To: CLUG General <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 > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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