[svlug] Maintaining a backup in the cloud using rsync

[Marc MERLIN]

On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 08:58:24AM -0800, norm at dad.org wrote:
> I have adequate local backup. But I'm interested in the additional security of
> an off site backup. I would like to find some site that that would let me
> store a directory, and maintain it, nightly, via rsync. I would prefer a site
> where the physical storage is not in the San Francisco Bay Area.
> 
> The directory would recursively contain about 33 gigabytes, distributed
> amongst about 760,000 files, almost none of which change from night to night.

I think you might be able to use google drive:
http://www.howtogeek.com/196635/an-official-google-drive-for-linux-is-here-sort-of-maybe-this-is-all-well-ever-get/
You can buy 100GB of storage for gdrive, $2/month
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375123?hl=en

Apparently dropbox is a better option though:
http://www.howtogeek.com/130465/4-alternatives-to-google-drive-for-linux/
but apparently with dropbox you have to jump to 1TB for $15/month
https://www.dropbox.com/business

Either, way, do more research on those options and basically you get a
virtual drive on linux that syncs to the cloud and to which you should
hopefully be able to run rsync.
If the dates are wrong in the virtual drive, you can try --size-only for rsync

Marc
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