Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
If you're Windows or Mac, it's hard to beat Backblaze. Continuous backups with near-zero setup. Even better, you pay per backed-up system rather than by-the-byte. And, unlike some other cloud backup services, you can fine-tune how much bandwidth a given system's backups are allowed to consume.
Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
I used to do everything (quite literally) "in house". Then my electric bills got to be stoopid-big. Switched to using cloud-services. Also means I no longer worry about power outages, basement getting flooded (and my rack submerged), remote accessibility (and protecting the home network from getting owned via an exposed service/port), etc.
From a TCO price-point and reliability standpoint, using BackBlaze's B2 service with something like Restic is hard to beat for keeping your Linux system backed up. About the only thing that might be more cost effective (haven't looked, recently, would be one of the CSP's archival-oriented service β like AWS's Glacier offering).
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Great article π.
I guess I should start backing up my data more frequently.
If you're Windows or Mac, it's hard to beat Backblaze. Continuous backups with near-zero setup. Even better, you pay per backed-up system rather than by-the-byte. And, unlike some other cloud backup services, you can fine-tune how much bandwidth a given system's backups are allowed to consume.
Thanks a lot for the suggestion. I'm a Linux user though π¬. Also I would like to setup my own backup server at home instead of using a service.
Sounds like an
rsync
job to me! Good luck with the project! Maybe you can write about how it went when youβre up and running!I used to do everything (quite literally) "in house". Then my electric bills got to be stoopid-big. Switched to using cloud-services. Also means I no longer worry about power outages, basement getting flooded (and my rack submerged), remote accessibility (and protecting the home network from getting owned via an exposed service/port), etc.
From a TCO price-point and reliability standpoint, using BackBlaze's B2 service with something like Restic is hard to beat for keeping your Linux system backed up. About the only thing that might be more cost effective (haven't looked, recently, would be one of the CSP's archival-oriented service β like AWS's Glacier offering).