offsite backup services

[Justin Collum]

Hey do any of you have experience with offsite backups like Crashplan? I need to offsite a few hard drives and Crashplan seemed great but it's taking waaaaay too long to back up 60G of data (as in months). Talked to support, no help. 

So I'm wondering if you've used an offsite backup like that with unlimited or large data caps and had good success. I'd like to back up my entire computer, about 300G. 

[Greg Johnson]

We just started using iBackup for a much smaller amount of data, and so far it's working really well for us...For a larger amount of data, they will ship you a hard drive for you to put your data on for the initial backup.

I'd check it out.

[Troy Howard]

Linux + s3fuse + s3 == relatively cheap backup? Just mount a directory
with s3fuse to an amazon bucket and you've got backup + easy
distributed file sharing.

-T

[Justin Collum]

Looks like S3 would be about $38/month for 300G. Crashplan is about 1/10th the price. 

[Troy Howard]

That's true... but Crashplan wasn't working for you.. ;)

For less expensive (than S3) solutions a little googling produces
iDrive, Moxy and Carbonite.

[Kevin Leetham]

We've recently started using CrashPlan but not to their cloud. We
brought a computer into the office, backed everything up to it, then
took it offsite. Only a few days to get multiple computers seeded
that way. With that we only pay CrashPlan $10 a month for up to 10
computers, though we pay for our hard drive space.

Did you see these tips? http://support.crashplan.com/doku.php/recipe/speeding_up_your_backup
The defaults for CrashPlan allow for only a little CPU and a little
use of bandwidth. Once you open up the throttle it does a lot better.

[Justin Collum]

Yeah, the support guy suggested those tips. Seems like my backup has been stuck at 88% for a couple of weeks.