On Aug 13, 2011, at 1:12 AM, Randy Bush wrote: > charles skipped what i see as a highly critical question, personal > backup.
I've been wondering this as well. My home backups are somewhat large and not yet offsite due to their size. (~4.7TB). This is due to both purchased digital media storage and photography. These are sufficiently large that the problem is harder to resolve, as nobody "makes" a 5TB drive I can ship to a colo. Drive failures in the "backups" host also become painful to work with as I'm cheap so the ZFS pool isn't 100% mirrored. Some machines use netatalk plus the "defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1" hack. I've considered just subbing to backblaze as it's "cheap" on a single-host basis, but need something closer to ~5-7TB plus some room for growth (maybe 250G-500G/year). I have considered just trenching copper/fiber (see other thread) to a neighbor and placing the host there, but it's not much geographical diversity, plus if the neighbor moves it becomes fun to re-explain what you are doing. (worse if they're non-techie). The biggest problem I've seen is with a "cloud"/"tubes" provider, my upload speed puts the 4.7TB initial sync somewhere around 145 days (assuming 3Mb/s upload). Is anyone aware of a solution for this that is sensible $$$ without rolling my own (i'm estimating about 2-3k to do this...)? And preferably costs maybe $ or $$? - Jared
