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August 29, 2008 11:43am
Subscribe [4]#1 / Aug 29, 2008 11:43am
Hi all,
We currently use a Timecapsule to store all our stuff but I dread the pantwetting moment when something nasty happens to it…
So I’d like to backup the Timecapsule to something online; with scope to backup anything between 500GB to 1TB for a reasonable cost.
Amazon S3 would be great, but can’t think of any backup clients like Apple Backup that might use it…
Dan.
#2 / Aug 29, 2008 12:55pm
How long would it take to upload 1tb! Why don’t you just have a backup policy where you take backups home or offsite and rotate? Probably cheaper and easier than uploading potentially gigs of data every day (which would probably take a day to upload in itself!
I use a couple of buffalo terastation pro 4tb nas drives with raid 5, one backs up to the other. I also remember seeing an article online by some bloke where he tells you how to configure time machine to backup to a nas type system.
Raid 5 nas backing up to another raid 5 nas for a little added paranoia protection.
#3 / Aug 29, 2008 4:36pm
I’ve seen today this:
http://www.christinawarren.com/2008/06/24/s3-backup-media-temple-gs/
#4 / Aug 29, 2008 5:40pm
Raid 5 nas backing up to another raid 5 nas
I’m no backup specialist, but I don’t see it getting any safer than that. Preferably the two nas’es would be in separate buildings offcourse… Imagine your place going up in flames :s
#5 / Aug 30, 2008 6:49am
There is always one offsite. Sweet.
#6 / Aug 30, 2008 3:33pm
I’m using http://www.mozy.com