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Re: Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores

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Post by andrewryno »

elorant wrote: post #60

I had a conversation the other day with a bunch of wedding photographers and it’s amazing how much money they spend on a yearly basis on backup. They all shoot raw and they end up with something like 50-60GB of data per event. And that’s only for photographers, videographers are on a completely different scale. Now, their number one problem isn’t storage per se, since cost per TB is constantly dropping, but uploading…

At least some large cloud storage providers offer it. For example, AWS has Import/Export[0] and Google has Offline Disk Import for Google Cloud Storage[1].

[0] http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/

[1] https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/early-access

Re: Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores

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Post by elorant »

andrewryno wrote: post #61
elorant wrote: post #60

I had a conversation the other day with a bunch of wedding photographers and it’s amazing how much money they spend on a yearly basis on backup. They all shoot raw and they end up with something like 50-60GB of data per event. And that’s only for photographers, videographers are on a completely different scale. Now, their number one problem isn’t storage per se, since cost per TB is constantly dropping, but uploading…

At least some large cloud storage providers offer it. For example, AWS has Import/Export[0] and Google has Offline Disk Import for Google Cloud Storage[1]. [0] http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/ [1] https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/early-access

Oh nice, I didn't know that. Thanks a million :)

Re: Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores

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Post by DomBlack »

nanch wrote: post #15
deanclatworthy wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Arq works quite nicely with Glacier: http://www.haystacksoftware.com/blog/2012/11/arq-cloud-backu...

And they have a special discount for Arq 4 today. https://store.haystacksoftware.com/?product=arq4&c=YAH4KD2AT...

I'd been thinking about buying Arq for the last month or so, thank you for posting this link, it made buying Arq a no brainer.

How come it isn't advertised anywhere on their site or blog? I checked for one this morning!

Re: Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores

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Post by actionscripted »

elorant wrote: post #60

I had a conversation the other day with a bunch of wedding photographers and it’s amazing how much money they spend on a yearly basis on backup. They all shoot raw and they end up with something like 50-60GB of data per event. And that’s only for photographers, videographers are on a completely different scale. Now, their number one problem isn’t storage per se, since cost per TB is constantly dropping, but uploading…

Crash Plan already offers this: http://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/Latest/Backup/Seeded_Bac...

As I believe many larger backup services do nowadays.

Re: Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores

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Post by bradyd »

derekp7 wrote: post #54
jreed91 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has anyone created a backup app that interfaces with glacier?

Does anyone have an open implementation of the glacier api? I'd like to add support for it to my backup tool, but I don't want to have to take on the financial risk of a large bill from Amazon if I happen to mis-use the api. So I'd like to try it out on a local server first, to project what the cost would be after a few months of use.

Amazon has official, open source SDKs in most major languages that cover all of the AWS service APIs.

https://aws.amazon.com/tools/?nc1=h_d_dl

Re: Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores

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Post by Thrymr »

Kluny wrote: post #56
izzydata wrote: post #51

I can't afford 10 more terabytes of space to create a backup right now. Guess I'll just pick 50gb of non video content to back up. Also what is the basis for the claim that 33% of people have never backed up anything? It seems like it would be far higher than that, but I'm not really sure what they consider having done a backup. Copying a picture off your camera to your computer might be considered a backup to them.

Not to mention, "29% of all disasters are caused by accidents". What on earth are the rest caused by? I'm sure a few are caused by malice, but I strongly doubt that it's 61%.

I read the icon to mean 29% of data loss is caused by human error, as opposed to hardware failure, etc. How that's measured, I have no idea (the citation is "Safeware, 2001" for what it's worth).

Re: Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores

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Post by derekp7 »

bradyd wrote: post #65
derekp7 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does anyone have an open implementation of the glacier api? I'd like to add support for it to my backup tool, but I don't want to have to take on the financial risk of a large bill from Amazon if I happen to mis-use the api. So I'd like to try it out on a local server first, to project what the cost would be after a few months of use.

Amazon has official, open source SDKs in most major languages that cover all of the AWS service APIs. https://aws.amazon.com/tools/?nc1=h_d_dl

Actually, I meant is there an open project where I can put something on my own server, to provide the same API that glacier uses? That way I can development / test my code against it instead of testing against Amazon directly.

Re: Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores

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Post by andmarios »

sammularczyk wrote: post #23
andmarios wrote: post #2

Not sure why but this site makes my GPU and a couple of CPU cores working at a full load. I use Chrome 34.0.x.

Hm, really? No such issues here. Could it the transform-3D SVG animation on page load?

I am not sure. I am on Linux and nvidia binary drivers. I have seen a fair share of problems, especially webgl based pages eating away CPU, or new tabs eating CPU cycles until they become active for the first time.

This is the first time though I believe that I saw a site eating GPU cycles and this is why I mentioned it.

Re: Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores

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Post by waylonrobert »

zimpenfish wrote: post #43
GrumpySimon wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolutely. After messing around with various combinations of rsync/ssh/unison/s3/glacier/etc for a few years, I bit the bullet and paid for Crashplan. It's cheap - the family plan is ~150 USD/year for up to ten computers, unlimited. It's a lifesaver. I've installed it on my parents/wifes/siblings computers and the piece of mind it gives me is immense - when I get the inevitable phone calls about the damn computer de…

I'd like to use the Crashplan Family option to cover everyone but since it's all shared and there's seemingly no way to silo the data per-computer, that's a total non-starter. Which is a shame because I'd love to give them my cash.

Just get an individual account for that purpose?

Re: Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores

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Post by wtbob »

chimeracoder wrote: post #27

I wish that they included options for Linux too. What Linux backup tools do people use? Currently I'm making do with a bash script that's just a wrapper around rsync, but it'd be nice to have something a little more powerful, especially with the option to back up things to glacier, etc.

duplicity to S3 here. I'd like to eventually figure out how to point duplicity to Glacier. And of course it'd be nice if GPG supported some more modern cyphers and modes, but it's Good Enough(tm).
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