[BBLISA] Cloud services: Amazon versus ...

[David Allan]

This in no way fits your requirements, so this is more for the rest of the 
list, but the minute before I read your email, I was thinking how happy I 
am with my recently implemented home backup solution, which is duplicity 
to S3.  Great for backups of a few gig on a few boxes.  I've simulated 
site destruction, i.e., installed a new machine at another location and 
restored, and it just works.

Ah, speak of the Devil, and he doth appear: as I was writing that 
paragraph, I got my AWS statement:

This e-mail confirms that your latest billing statement is available on 
the AWS web site. Your account will be charged the following:

Total: $0.07

That seems like a reasonable price.  ;)

That's for only a hundred MB or so, I haven't pushed everything up there 
yet; I expect $15/mo. or so when I do.

Dave


On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:

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> What other cloud services are people using? 
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> I'm asking in general, for general knowledge.  But I'm also asking for a specific reason
> right now.  Up till now, I've been doing my home backups by periodically rotating a disk
> offsite.  I'd like to start doing backups over the WAN instead.  I am aware of services
> such as mozy & crashplan, but that's not what I want to use.  I specifically want to be
> able to "zfs receive" on the remote end, which means I want to build my own personal
> virtual solaris/opensolaris server.
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> Amazon is an option.  But I don't want to naively assume it's the best option.
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> Thanks...
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