Monday, April 4, 2011

Re: [BLUG] Matthew Williams wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn

I'm sorry for this everyone.  I forgot to uncheck a few emails when sending out invitations

On Apr 4, 2011 6:59 PM, "Matthew Williams" <lord.drachenblut@gmail.com> wrote:

[BLUG] Matthew Williams wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn

LinkedIn

I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

- Matthew Williams

Matthew Williams
President at Indiana F/OSS Society
Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Confirm that you know Matthew

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[BLUG] Matthew Williams wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn

LinkedIn

Bloomington,

I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

- Matthew Williams

Matthew Williams
President at Indiana F/OSS Society
Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Confirm that you know Matthew

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Re: [BLUG] looking for (linux friendly) offsite backup options

I am using Amazon S3 with a Jungledisk client on both my Ubuntu laptop
and my wife's iBook. There are other solutions, but JD is fast, simple
and cheap. What I like the best is that the backup files are browsable
and easily recovered individually if you set it up that way. You also
get an on-line drive so it was easy to create a combination archiving
and backup solution.

On 04/03/2011 02:51 PM, Ben Shewmaker wrote:
> Does anyone have any recommendations on offsite backup options? I
> know there are a number of companies with varying offers on price and
> storage, but a number of them only work with their software (usually
> windows/pc only). Right now I have an Ubuntu box serving as my NAS,
> so ideally I'd love to be able to continue to backup to that, then
> have that box backup to the cloud. I have around 50 gigs of
> photos/vids/other docs right now that I really need backed up, but of
> course that will only grow as I take more pictures and videos and
> whatnot. What about something like Rackspace or Amazon s3? Or they
> purely enterprise solutions or are they doable and/or affordable for a
> home user? Or is there some other company that will provide what I
> need?
>
> Thanks!
> Ben
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Re: [BLUG] looking for (linux friendly) offsite backup options

Thanks for the info from everyone.

I have been a Dropbox user for quite a while and have considered their
premium options, but as the data I want to back up are in multiple
folders in different locations, and Dropbox only syncs the dropbox
folder, I'm not sure that's the solution I want. I think I remember
reading somewhere a while back about symlinking folders to get around
this, but I'm not sure its worth the hassle.

Just like Mark, I'm also wary of very cheap "unlimited" plans. There
was another service I saw that has a linux client, called Crashplan.
They have an unlimited plan for "as low as" $3/month (that's literally
what their pricing page says, as low as, what does that mean anyway).
I don't mean to knock Crashplan without trying but if all their users
suddenly start using hundreds of gigs or more of storage I don't see
how they can be profitable only charging them $3/month. These types
of plans always seem to be under the assumption that users won't use
"too much" of their "unlimited" option and when they suddenly do start
using more, then what? They go to limited plans like Mozy did?

Spideroak looks interesting, I may try out their free 2gb service and
see how it goes from there.

Ben
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