Benefits over Amazon S3?
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mbtronics
Jan 12, 2011, 3:47:09 PM1/12/11
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Hey,
Since I almost lost all my data two weeks ago, I'm looking for a good
offsite-backup method to backup +- 50GB data. Both Amazon S3 and
datastorageunit.com appear to be technically sophisticated (eg. no
stupid gui program needed) and reasonably priced.
What are the benefits of datastorageunit.com compared to Amazon S3?
thanks!
Since I almost lost all my data two weeks ago, I'm looking for a good
offsite-backup method to backup +- 50GB data. Both Amazon S3 and
datastorageunit.com appear to be technically sophisticated (eg. no
stupid gui program needed) and reasonably priced.
What are the benefits of datastorageunit.com compared to Amazon S3?
thanks!
Martin Larsen
Jan 12, 2011, 3:50:14 PM1/12/11
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I don't know about Amazon, but DSU has very good support from the owner.
It has also built-in encryption (EncFS, Truecrypt) and you can login
with ssh.
Highly recommended.
Martin
Fish Kungfu
Jan 12, 2011, 9:01:53 PM1/12/11
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mbtronics...
Personally, I prefer to put my trust and support behind an individual entrepreneur like John. I have been very satisfied with the straight-forward simple solution he provides.
But, if you have an Amazon account you can test drive the full spectrum of Amazon's web Services, including their Simple Storage Service: http://aws.amazon.com. I have tried their Elastic Compute Cloud, Simple Storage Service, and IP service just to learn about it. For an individual, I found it was cost prohibitive, but it was an interesting learning experience.
Cheers,
~~Fish~~
Personally, I prefer to put my trust and support behind an individual entrepreneur like John. I have been very satisfied with the straight-forward simple solution he provides.
But, if you have an Amazon account you can test drive the full spectrum of Amazon's web Services, including their Simple Storage Service: http://aws.amazon.com. I have tried their Elastic Compute Cloud, Simple Storage Service, and IP service just to learn about it. For an individual, I found it was cost prohibitive, but it was an interesting learning experience.
Cheers,
~~Fish~~
knnniggett
Jan 14, 2011, 9:20:54 AM1/14/11
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What I like best about DataStorageUnit is that you can roll-your-own
method to backup and restore your data. You are not forced to backup
or restore your data a particular way due to the proprietary-ness of
the storage provider. There are many open-source tools at your
disposal to accomplish your goal.
I just read about Amazon S3 for the first time, and it does sound like
there is a way to mount your storage remotely. I didn't catch what
tools one could use to do that, but that's definitely a plus.
As was already mentioned... how important is good tech support to you?
With Amazon S3, I'm sure you will get the typical automated response
"We have received your message. You can expect a response in with 48
hours...." and then hope the follow-up response you get is not a copy
and paste from their knowledge-base. I think we all know what that is
like. With DSU, John will likely give you a human, hand typed response
within a few hours.
On Jan 12, 8:01 pm, Fish Kungfu <fish.kun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> mbtronics...
>
> Personally, I prefer to put my trust and support behind an individual
> entrepreneur like John. I have been very satisfied with the
> straight-forward simple solution he provides.
>
> But, if you have an Amazon account you can test drive the full spectrum of
> Amazon's web Services, including their Simple Storage Service:http://aws.amazon.com. I have tried their Elastic Compute Cloud, Simple
> Storage Service, and IP service just to learn about it. For an individual,
> I found it was cost prohibitive, but it was an interesting learning
> experience.
>
> Cheers,
> ~~Fish~~
>
method to backup and restore your data. You are not forced to backup
or restore your data a particular way due to the proprietary-ness of
the storage provider. There are many open-source tools at your
disposal to accomplish your goal.
I just read about Amazon S3 for the first time, and it does sound like
there is a way to mount your storage remotely. I didn't catch what
tools one could use to do that, but that's definitely a plus.
As was already mentioned... how important is good tech support to you?
With Amazon S3, I'm sure you will get the typical automated response
"We have received your message. You can expect a response in with 48
hours...." and then hope the follow-up response you get is not a copy
and paste from their knowledge-base. I think we all know what that is
like. With DSU, John will likely give you a human, hand typed response
within a few hours.
On Jan 12, 8:01 pm, Fish Kungfu <fish.kun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> mbtronics...
>
> Personally, I prefer to put my trust and support behind an individual
> entrepreneur like John. I have been very satisfied with the
> straight-forward simple solution he provides.
>
> But, if you have an Amazon account you can test drive the full spectrum of
> Amazon's web Services, including their Simple Storage Service:http://aws.amazon.com. I have tried their Elastic Compute Cloud, Simple
> Storage Service, and IP service just to learn about it. For an individual,
> I found it was cost prohibitive, but it was an interesting learning
> experience.
>
> Cheers,
> ~~Fish~~
>
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