FYI, one of our sysadmins just pointed out the following: http://greyhat-security.com/dropbox-insecure-design.
On 4/8/11 1:09 PM, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > 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] > <mailto:[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. > -- --------------- Chris Hoogendyk - O__ ---- Systems Administrator c/ /'_ --- Biology& Geology Departments (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst <[email protected]> --------------- Erdös 4 _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
