[BBLISA] Cloud services: Amazon versus ...

[K. M. Peterson]

I'm running backups of personal data to S3; about 80GB/month; haven't really gotten close to Comcast's 250GB/month limit as yet.  (I wrote an app in Python to package up backup chunks from my local stage, encrypt, and transfer every day between 0200-0600 to avoid trampling on any other traffic).

Wrote some stuff to poll my router to generate numbers so I could graph my usage, but now Comcast has a "meter" on their site you can check.  I could conceivably go over 250 if I had a heavy month and also needed to do a restore, but I'm surprised that it hasn't really bothered me.

I think generally I'm paying under $20 a month for this to Amazon, since I only use is as a "warm" copy. It would be too expensive for archive, though.  I could cut some 33% off my current residency costs by switching to the "reduced redundancy" storage.

_KMP

On 04Oct10, at 06:37 , Charles Bennett wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 16:43 -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>> What other cloud services are people using?  
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Amazon is an option.  But I don't want to naively assume it's the best
>> option.
>> 
> 
> Clearly you're not a Comcast customer?
> 
> As I see it the establishment of "bandwidth" caps is the death-knell for
> emerging cloud storage outfits like Carbonite.
> 
> 
> ccb
> 
> 
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