What kind of backup/sorts of data/amount of data are you dealing with? What kind of network connectivity do you have? What kind of budget are you talking about (I assume by "personal" you also want "not too expensive")?
I've been happy with using Dropbox for most of my data that requires a backup (music, photos, documents, etc.) On writes, it all just magically gets synced to their machines (anything sensitive I encrypt), and I can easily retrieve the data either via web or on another machine if necessary. I also get file syncing for free between machines (great for those music + photos). I've also (in the past) been pretty happy with Crashplan. I was using the personal version (free), letting multiple machines backup to one of my own servers, though it's also possible to use Crashplan's storage backend too. It's also possible to let multiple people backup to each other, so one thing I had considered was to let family members backup their data to my server, versus their either a) no backups (most common), b) flash drive/external hard drive/dvd-rw, or c) something else like carbonite/etc. Each Crashplan client encrypts the data before sending it, so privacy isn't a big issue. All this said, my amount of "needs backup" data is < 50G with a small amount of churn. Backing up "to the cloud" works pretty well, and also depends on network connectivity. For example, I decided to upgrade my home connection to have higher upload bandwidth, otherwise it was taking a long time to upload newly ripped CDs, and more importantly, the encrypted disk images where I store sensitive data (which changes frequently while using the data inside the image). On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Anne Cross <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm looking to update my personal backup system. At the moment, I'm > running an old version of JungleDisk, and backing up to the Amazon S3 > cloud, but it's old enough that I'm starting to get failures. > > Rather than shell out for the new version of JungleDisk from Rackspace > blindly, I thought I'd ask what folks recommend? I'd go with Backblaze, > but they don't have a Linux client and don't have plans to build one in > the immediate future. >
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