Virt/Dedi Server for Backup Purposes?

[rileypool]

Hey all, I recently took a Consulting job to fix a small investment firm's current IT infrastructure. What I want to do now is provide for them a off-site backup location in case of a disaster.

Right now there's <20gb of data I would like to backup but let's call it 25gb to play safe and to allow for more data to be backed up if and/or when necessary. I would also be backing this data up every Friday so that would be the equivalent (some months) to 5 times a month so that would be at least 125gb of bandwidth I would need.

Would a virtual dedicated server or a dedicated server serve this purpose well? I'm looking for a cost effective solution. What do you all recommend?

 

[argh01]

Personally I recommend rsync.net

This isn't an aff link. It's just a link to their reseller program, which @ 25GB you might be interested in.

I like them because I can rsync my backups or mount the backup location with sshfs.

rsync.net - Secure Offsite Backups, Offsite Data Storage and Remote Encrypted Filesystems

 

[oziman]

Amazon S3

Rsync is good.

I would also suggest Amazon S3.. Not as good a guarantee but a cheaper price per GB.

 

[casidnet]

A List of Amazon S3 Backup Tools (by Jeremy Zawodny)

Nirvanix - Home is another one like Amazon S3

 

[rileypool]

Amazon seems simple enough and is way cheaper than Rsync. I know I get what I pay for but Amazon has their shit together so I'm not too worried.

I'll try them out and I'll let everybody know how it goes.

 

[rileypool]

Actually while I was looking at that list casidnet provided there was a comment on that page with a link to mozy.com. I ended up signing up with them. They're the cheapest so far and VERY simple to use. I'll post more information once I test out their software and service more thoroughly