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I don't know if they allow that, but I was thinking of getting one of the advertised-as-unlimited-storage dreamhost account and using rsync to do my backups. Anyone using this already?
I use tarsnap. (Also, I wrote tarsnap.) I feel bad about advertising my product here, so I'll stop there and let other HN readers tell you how fantastic tarsnap is. :-)
I have no idea of whether it's fantastic. I can see a list of times when I've run ./tarsnap.sh, but I have no idea if it's really encrypting the backup, and I have no idea if it's making a backup in the first place. I mean, I haven't had any hard drive failures and I haven't inspected the client source code. (As far as I can tell, the product is great.)
And I can't remember where offsite I've put my keyfile, notwithstanding for the microprinted uuencoding I have stored in my ear.
> My one requirement is that I be the only one that is able to decrypt my files.
Tarsnap lets you download, inspect, and compile the source code yourself, and nothing unencrypted goes off your machine, so it's sufficient if you value paranoia. But I have not comparison-shopped.
I periodically mirror files from home to a portable drive that I take to the office and dump onto a (Truecrypt encrypted) drive on a machine at work. That's my main backup system right now.
I also use a free Dropbox account for smaller files.
I use tarsnap. (Also, I wrote tarsnap.) I feel bad about advertising my product here, so I'll stop there and let other HN readers tell you how fantastic tarsnap is. :-)
I'm a user of tarsnap. I have no idea of whether it's fantastic. I can see a list of times when I've run ./tarsnap.sh, but I have no idea if it's really encrypting the backup, and I have no idea if it's making a backup in the first place. I mean, I haven't had any hard drive failures and I haven't inspected the client source code. (As far as I can tell, the product is great.) And I can't remember where offsite I've p…
I don't know if they allow that, but I was thinking of getting one of the advertised-as-unlimited-storage dreamhost account and using rsync to do my backups. Anyone using this already?
I don't know if dreamhost has done this recently, but I've heard many stories of people having their accounts closed due to "using storage for a purpose other than web hosting".
I don't know if they allow that, but I was thinking of getting one of the advertised-as-unlimited-storage dreamhost account and using rsync to do my backups. Anyone using this already?
It's not bad but a far cry from "unlimited." Still, it seems to work fine for rsyncing "small" backups.
I use tarsnap. (Also, I wrote tarsnap.) I feel bad about advertising my product here, so I'll stop there and let other HN readers tell you how fantastic tarsnap is. :-)
I'm a user of tarsnap. I have no idea of whether it's fantastic. I can see a list of times when I've run ./tarsnap.sh, but I have no idea if it's really encrypting the backup, and I have no idea if it's making a backup in the first place. I mean, I haven't had any hard drive failures and I haven't inspected the client source code. (As far as I can tell, the product is great.) And I can't remember where offsite I've p…
Unless you look at source code, you'll never know if a backup service is encrypting your backups or not. At least with tarsnap you have the option of reading the source code to verify that tarsnap does what I say it does. :-)
... and I have no idea if it's making a backup in the first place.
tarsnap --list-archives, tarsnap -t, and tarsnap -x are your friends. The ultimate test of whether a backup was created -- for any backup system -- is "can I get my data back".