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Rsync.net gets cheaper

By Callum | Published: Tuesday 28 Oct 2008 17:57

My online backup service, rsync.net, has just dropped their prices. They’re now $1.20 per GB per month, unlimited bandwidth. Pretty reasonable I reckon. Plus they’ve added a couple of Windows clients to make things easier for poor souls not yet enlightened to the power of Linux. :-p
While others are talking doom and gloom it would [...]

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Backup, backup, then backup some more

By Callum | Published: Wednesday 20 Aug 2008 16:25

I’ve had a couple of backup reminders recently. John suffered a hard drive failure. Then his backup failed. It reminded me that I need to sort out a backup for my server. This server! Then I accidentally deleted my whole address book. Thankfully I was able to restore from backup quite painlessly. Thank you dear, [...]

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Staying with rsync.net

By Callum | Published: Tuesday 27 Nov 2007 18:18

Have said I was going to ditch rsync.net as my backup provider, I’ve decided to change my mind. The eventually got back to me today having finally fixed my problem a whole month after I reported it, and a full 14 days after they last were in touch.
However, my problem was very specific, very random, [...]

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Goodbye Rsync.net, Hello Amazon S3

By Callum | Published: Saturday 27 Oct 2007 18:27

Update 27-Nov-2008: In the end I stayed with rsync.net.
Today I’ve decided I’m fed up with my current backup provider, rsync.net. The service they provide is pretty solid, I’ve been using it for a few months now. The main reason I chose them at $1.80 per Gb instead of Amazon at around $0.30 per Gb is [...]

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Amazon S3

By Callum | Published: Wednesday 05 Sep 2007 15:40

Amazon S3 is a static file hosting service from Amazon. Storage costs $0.15 USD per Gb and data transfer (outgoing) costs $0.18 USD per GB up to 10TB. As an online backup solution, it would cost less than $20 / month to store 100Gb, assuming you’re not uploading / downloading more than 20% every month.
That’s [...]

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