<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Rick Hornsby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richardjhornsby@gmail.com" target="_blank">richardjhornsby@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
The other thing I’m wondering the best way to deal with is to off-site backup the volume. You can’t diff the volume, since it is a binary file. Repeatedly copying a 10GB file will start to annoy the place you’re uploading it to. Would it make more sense to create a local and remote truecrypt volume and do something with rsync to keep the contents in sync as long as both volumes are open? Hmm, I’m wondering if a hosting provider like DH would even allow that sort of thing (assuming it was possible now that I think about it?)<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>SpiderOak (or something similar that you might trust) claims zero-knowledge storage, so it could be a target for the files from your encrypted volume. In that particular case, if you can weasel it down to 2gb, it's free, and really painfully easy, but you'll have to be careful and trusting.<div>
<br></div></div><div>If you're up for some work (of course you are), I'd really recommend storing your backups on Amazon Glacier. It's infrequent bulk-access storage with extremely delayed retrieval. Submit a webservice request for retrieval and check back once an hour to see if it's ready for download. I imagine they have robots or something moving the data around.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Storage is a $0.01/GB, inbound transfer is free, deletes are free. Retrievals of a 10gb file will be a few dollars (more or less depending on how slow you're willing to retrieve it.) So, if I'm reading their pricing right, monthly backups will cost you $.30/mo. Hell, daily backups will only cost you around $3/mo. There's a lot of fine print, though, so keep an eye on your costs. Caveats like deletes of data fresher than 90 days has a fee...</div>
<div><br></div><div>And do a sanity backup on a USB disk once a year at a friend's house. (or skip glacier and only do that. ;)</div></div></div></div>