Re: Digest for datastorageunit@googlegroups.com - 4 Messages in 1 Topic

[James Franchino]

I'm going with Spideroak. Their prices are decent. You don't get anywhere near the flexibility of DSU but their privacy is top notch.

On 7/3/2012 1:17 PM, datasto...@googlegroups.com wrote:

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Michael Berman <michael....@gmail.com> Jul 02 07:14PM -0700  

I know John has given us a year (thank you John!), but I want to start
looking. My backups are far from perfect now (nothing to do with DSU
- issues with my scripts, etc.), so I figure it'll take me a while to
get something that is actually working correctly with another service
if it's anything more than changing the rsync destination. I've
checked out a few already, but I'm either finding Window's only
clients or rates that are so high (i.e. rsync.net) that I could get a
dedicated server myself and still come out ahead.
 
I have a pretty decent pipe (25/25Mb and that'll likely to go up) and
I don't have excessively large files that frequently change, so I
could probably make a ftp based solution work if I had to (but it
wouldn't be my first choice).
 
I need some space. To do it right between pictures, video, etc., I'd
really need around a TB and room to grow beyond that.
 
So, has anyone found any great replacements?
 
Michael Berman


 

Rusty Nejdl <rne...@gmail.com> Jul 02 10:44PM -0500  

I went with DSU exactly because I couldn't find anyone else that offered
anything like this. I would be willing to trade backup services with
someone else if interested. I am in the even worse spot of being FreeBSD
which is like the bastard stepchild of linux. Ping me offline of you are
interested.
 
Rusty Nejdl
 
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Michael Berman


 

niknah <nik...@gmail.com> Jul 03 02:21AM -0700  

I have been using idrive on windows, which has a similar price to dsu. But
I don't like the software, it struggles with mapped network drives and some
times gets stuck and doesn't warn you.
 
Here's something similar with shell access for $102 per month for 100gig
www.microtronix-tech.com/cart.php?a=confproduct&i=0
 
Google storage and Amazon S3 are about $144 per year for 100gig storage,
that's not including the network costs.
But Amazon S3's uploads are free.
 
A 2tb drive is around $120 these days, it'd be good if someone can start an
alternative service. I only have adsl so I can't do that.


 

Michael Berman <michael....@gmail.com> Jul 03 05:38AM -0700  

The whole idea of DSU is offsite backups. I have a safe deposit box
at a bank (got it for free because of a loan) with the theory being to
keep backups there. In the span of several years, I've taken data
there once. It has to be easy and at least near automated for it to
work for me. I'm guessing that is true of others as well. I'm pretty
sure we are mostly trying to backup personal data. It has to be easy
and reasonably cheap.
 
I've looked at Amazon before. Just not viable for any more than 50GB
of data. Just way too expensive. All the extras (bandwidth, server
charges, dealing with the S3 interface, etc.) add up. For Google,
unless things have changed, the interface just doesn't work well for
this type of purpose. You can dump some tarballs there, but it sucks
for incremental backups, etc. (I guess one could do incremental
tarballs?).
 
For $50 o $60 a month, there are numerous places where one can get a
dedicated server with a 160GB (or better) hard drive. Honestly, I
need more space than that and have less of a budget.
 
I have a friend that is about 10 miles from me that would probably let
me keep something at this house, but it would have to be very low
power, I'd still have to maintain it, and I was really liking the idea
of something that was further away from me.
 
It won't help me, but I'm possibly contemplating the idea of trying to
setup some sort of service. No promises. I can get unmetered 150
down/35Mb up service where I am for about $250 a month (about $130 for
the lowest plan with a static IP). It's something I'm thinking
about....
 
John
 
How much bandwidth have we been burning through? Can you give some
high level anonymized info on the subscriber base? i.e. 50
subscribers on the 100GB plan, 20 at 400GB, etc. Any comments about
hardware or what it has taken to run this service?
 
Michael Berman
 


 

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[John Wooton]

I've been digging for this email I got once from a guy who jumped ship waaaaay back.  It was a service almost identical to mine, with really good pricing.  I'm pretty sure they offered rsync/sftp/smb/web  ... but for the life of me, I can't find the email with the link.  I'll keep looking.