[svlug] Maintaining a backup in the cloud using rsync

[JC Lawrence]

Unless you need low latency recovery, have a look at AWS Glacier.  An interesting approach which gives some nice control points is to dump the files into S3 and then use a policy on the S3 bucket to auto-move those files into Glacier.

-- JCL

> On 7 Dec 2014, at 08:58, 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 would appreciate advice and recommendations.
> 
>    Norman Shapiro
> 
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