[clug-talk] offsite backups

2013-09-27 Thread Shawn
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, b

Re: [clug-talk] offsite backups

2013-09-27 Thread Andrew Robinson
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

Re: [clug-talk] offsite backups

2013-09-27 Thread Gustin Johnson
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 wrote: > ** > > Hi Shawn, > > For something of this size I've always found that the price of cloud storage > to be insane. Amazon for instance woul

Re: [clug-talk] offsite backups

2013-09-27 Thread Shawn
I'd be curious to hear as well. But maybe a private message with details would be better suited. As for Andrew's comments, this is more or less what I was picturing. Except it'd be a relatively cheap NAS from Memex, on some employee's home connection (likely the owner) and set up to do rsync

Re: [clug-talk] offsite backups

2013-09-27 Thread Andrew Robinson
Depending upon your view of cheap you could use the rsync capabilities built into something like a pair Netgear ReadyNAS, with something else to create a VPN connection between the two boxes. Simple, effective, and depending upon the type of drives used it can be cheap. -Original messa

Re: [clug-talk] offsite backups

2013-09-27 Thread Andrew Robinson
Company name is Shing Digital.  If you'd like more information fire me off a PM as I would rather not spam people if it can be helped :) -Original message- From: Gustin Johnson  Sent: Friday 27th September 2013 15:18 To: CLUG General Subject: Re: [clug-talk] offsite backups What compan