[colug-432] Recommendations for inexpensive and secure cloud storage?

[Joe Knapp]

Amazon Web Services is pretty reasonable--their S3 (Simple Storage
Service) is $0.03 per gigabyte per month and data transfer is $0.12
per gigabyte. There are command-line tools for pushing and pulling
files/directories. It's a bit less user-friendly and packaged than
some other services, but if you want to roll your own backup
solution...

Joe

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Jeff Frontz <jeff.frontz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1) What is the quantity of data that you'll actually want to protect (is it
> actually 4TB?)?
> 2) How often/much does the to-be-protected data change?
> 3) What sort of access (frequency, amount, platform) do you need to the
> to-be-protected data?
> 4) What threats do you want to protect it against? and
> 5) How fast do you need to recover if said threat should materialize?
>
> I use everything from hardcopy to flash drives to phones/pictures to google
> docs to backuppc/timemachine to jungle disk to crash plan to tapes to
> mirrored/removed-to-offsite hard-drives (and CDs/DVDs): different data gets
> handled differently.
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Dan Kaiser <dank2878 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> [tldr: looking for recommendations and/or testimonials for cloud storage
>> solutions)
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> In the next month or so my family will be temporarily relocating to the
>> east coast while our two youngest children undergo intense medical treatment
>> for the next year or so.  We will be storing everything, renting the house
>> out, and living in the hospital or communal housing while there.  This means
>> tight living quarters and no direct access to the internet router.
>>
>> I had been trying to set up OwnCloud as my own personal Dropbox platform
>> for self-hosted, backed-up, storage for all of our media and more important
>> files, but now I will need to put that plan on hold.
>>
>> Does anyone in this group use or recommend a hosted storage platform?  I
>> want to ensure we have access to all (or at least most) of our digital media
>> and other important files (read: tax and financial data, etc.) while we are
>> away.  I'm planning to bring along at least one 4TB external drive, but I'd
>> hate to rely on one spinning disk for a year without a backup/redundancy
>> plan.
>>
>> I have 50 GB each in Dropbox and Box, but we'll need a good deal more than
>> that.  I thought about setting up a box running Crashplan at a family
>> member's house to have everything back up automatically using their "friend"
>> backup solution, but there are a lot of things that could go wrong with
>> that.
>>
>> Reviews and opinions abound on the various services (Carbonite, JustCloud,
>> Amazon, Mozy, Back Blaze, etc.) so I'd like some input from folks on this
>> group if there are specific services that are highly recommended.
>>
>> Cross-platform (Linux, Mac OS, Win7, iOS, Android) functionality is a
>> must.  Most of these services offer web interfaces, but
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help.
>>
>> Dan
>>
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