Regarding your question on Carbonite:
"Carbonite does not currently back up files that are larger than 2GB in size, removable hard drives (e.g., USB drives) or mapped network drives."
"Carbonite will back up all the supported files on your hard drive whether you have 1GB, 10GB or more. As a practical matter, the speed of today's DSL and cable Internet services will make it very slow to back up more than, say, 40-50GB of data. Our Terms of Use will allow us to deny service to abusers."
Given those terms, it's going to be tough to get past 100GB or so.
I will have to consider getting a dedicated server at a hosting facility or do some kind of peer-sharing with friends and/or fellow photographers.
This is going to be expensive... Even with the 50% discount at rsync, that's $450/mo... *ponders other ideas*
Perhaps a dedicated server somewhere isn't such a bad idea. Could possibly share it with a few friends.
I'm looking for easy, reliable offsite backup functionality. I'm a photographer with a lot of photos. I use a Linux box with a raid array for my primary storage. This is backed up to DVD piece meal. I've also been using an external usb drive as more a nearline backup device.
In terms of bandwidth and speed, I expect my data to be slowly backed up over time. Probably will need a few weeks to get everything uploaded. I'm assuming the backup client will use idle time to transfer. Once the initial transfer is completed, I assume that only additional files will transfer and that that will only take a few hours at a time when needed, doesn't realy matter. I don't need to have revisions available, but I would like to not have items deleted from the backup if they are removed from the source device.
For restore, I don't expect for that to happen quickly either. It will take weeks to download all my data again. Possibly, some kind of bulk restore option could be available (dvds, hd, whatever), and would probably be pretty expensive. But that's ok - the point of this backup is to be OFFSITE and SAFE.
For data privacy, I'm assuming the backup client encrypts the data in some way prior to reaching the service facility. I know that Carbonite works this way.
This is not meant to be a sole backup solution, but simply a cost-effective offsite copy in the event of a catastrophe onsite. I know of photographers who've had their servers AND backup tapes/drives/whatever stolen from their studio. I really don't want to have to constantly shuffle tapes/drives to a safe deposit box. I want a slow, constant online backup being built as my data grows.
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Regarding your question on Carbonite: "Carbonite does not currently back up files that are larger than 2GB in size, removable hard drives (e.g., USB drives) or mapped network drives." "Carbonite will back up all the supported files on your hard drive whether you have 1GB, 10GB or more. As a practical matter, the speed of today's DSL and cable Internet services will make it very slow to back up more than, say, 40-50GB of data. Our Terms of Use will allow us to deny service to abusers." Given those terms, it's going to be tough to get past 100GB or so. I will have to consider getting a dedicated server at a hosting facility or do some kind of peer-sharing with friends and/or fellow photographers.
This is going to be expensive... Even with the 50% discount at rsync, that's $450/mo... *ponders other ideas* Perhaps a dedicated server somewhere isn't such a bad idea. Could possibly share it with a few friends.
I current have about 500GB on the server. That will likely double over the next year.
Thanks for the questions.
I'm looking for easy, reliable offsite backup functionality. I'm a photographer with a lot of photos. I use a Linux box with a raid array for my primary storage. This is backed up to DVD piece meal. I've also been using an external usb drive as more a nearline backup device.
In terms of bandwidth and speed, I expect my data to be slowly backed up over time. Probably will need a few weeks to get everything uploaded. I'm assuming the backup client will use idle time to transfer. Once the initial transfer is completed, I assume that only additional files will transfer and that that will only take a few hours at a time when needed, doesn't realy matter. I don't need to have revisions available, but I would like to not have items deleted from the backup if they are removed from the source device.
For restore, I don't expect for that to happen quickly either. It will take weeks to download all my data again. Possibly, some kind of bulk restore option could be available (dvds, hd, whatever), and would probably be pretty expensive. But that's ok - the point of this backup is to be OFFSITE and SAFE.
For data privacy, I'm assuming the backup client encrypts the data in some way prior to reaching the service facility. I know that Carbonite works this way.
This is not meant to be a sole backup solution, but simply a cost-effective offsite copy in the event of a catastrophe onsite. I know of photographers who've had their servers AND backup tapes/drives/whatever stolen from their studio. I really don't want to have to constantly shuffle tapes/drives to a safe deposit box. I want a slow, constant online backup being built as my data grows.