[ProgSoc] Data Persistence in the cloud

Noah O'Donoghue noah.odonoghue at gmail.com
Wed Jan 19 12:38:14 EST 2011


Couple of cloud(ish) solutions I'd look at.

First off, since it's photos - have to mention flickr. $25ish a year,
unlimited storage. Probably the cheapest option.

Then Dropbox - probably the best for the cloud-wary, as it keeps a local
copy synced and you can install it on a few computers. Also convenient for
having your photos handy for editing without worrying about sync issues, and
access from iphone/web/android. $240ish a year..

Or, a more DIY but in my opinion awesome solution would be crashplan.. You
could plug a hard drive pre-filled with your backup to an offsite internet
connected machine, (think: a machine in progsoc) and crashplan would sync
just the changes over the internet, close to real time. The pro's to this
would be that if you ever have to restore, no waiting for 65GB to download..
just go to the offsite backup and restore direct from the drive. Or over the
internet if it's just a small restore.

Of course you could also go for the wimpier option and pay for crashplan
central.. which has damn cheap pricing considering it's unlimited data on
some plans.. though then you have to wait for your data to upload/download
from the states... They do let you supply your own encryption key though..

-Noah

On 18 January 2011 11:44, James Ducker <jducker at progsoc.org> wrote:

> I thought I'd solicit some opinions from fellow Computing Enthusiasts,
>
> I have ~60GB of digital photos, stretching back about 10 years. For most of
> that time they have existed on a single HDD (!!!), and for the past 2 years
> they've been on a RAID5 volume, which has been great, as initially I had the
> dreaded Seagate 7200.11 series disks, which failed all the bloody time.
>
> Anyway, following the logic that disk redundancy won't do you much good if
> your computer dies in a fire, or is stolen, or kicked slightly too hard, or
> submerged in water, I've started dumping them to Amazon S3. TO DATE, this
> has been awesome, and incredibly cheap compared to my two alternatives: buy
> my own rack and put it in a data centre, or rent a VPS, both of which are
> really overkill for what is a private, access-once-in-a-blue-moon file
> server.
>
> Has anyone else tried this? If so, any lessons worth sharing?
>
> - James
>
> --
> *James Ducker*
> Pretty Cool Guy(TM)
>
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