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

[Bill Schwanitz]

Actually, given what you are looking to do check out glacier…

https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing/

I’ve been using backblaze for a few years now. Their use-case is to have a remote constant backup. EG, you need the pc to be online. May want to give them an email about a push up and then ( from what I’m hearing ) likely not updating and just leaving there for a while.

Also include the cost in terms of time to upload the data. Depending on how much data you have and your bandwidth available it may be time prohibitive for you

On Aug 19, 2014, at 7:46 PM, Joe Knapp <jmknapp at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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