[survey] third party backup

bigcat

At some point I think everyone will have to accept that we can't really manage everything. We have to escalate some of our system, especially backup.
This is mini survey on how you use third party backup service.

Question

Backup Method:

Restore Method:

Size:

Price:

Example answer

Backup Method: FTP/FTPS/Duplicity/R1Soft/S3 etc

Restore Method: FTP/Samba mount

Size: 100GB

Price: $20

Also, whats the frustration you faced with current provider?

inb4 backupsy

PetaByet

Does a self-managed backup VPS / server count as a third-party backup service or BAAS only?

4n0nx

Backup Method: rsync

Restore Method: rsync

Size: 500GB-2TB, depending on how lucky you are

Price: 5€/mo. kimsufi from OVH




Backup Method: BTSync

Restore Method: BTSync

Size: as big as your local hard drive

Price: as cheap as you can get hard drives

Dropbox seems to be ok,too but only with encryption (like $10 for 1TB). Haven't had the time to look at their API.

mustafaramadhan

Online.net offer 750GB backup for EUR 4.99 for server rent.

Silvenga

Backup Method: Automated using Saltstack with S3 via Duplicity

Restore Method: Manual using scripts with S3 via Duplicity

Size: ~20GB

Price: $0.28

Issues: Restoring with Duplicity got a server shutdown due to high disk usage - had to start all over again (Duplicity requires me to download the snapshot to another location - then perform a merge of the data).

bigcat

@PetaByet said:
Does a self-managed backup VPS / server count as a third-party backup service or BAAS only?

The latter.
But do you still handles all your backup yourselves?

bigcat

@4n0nx said:
Dropbox seems to be ok,too but only with encryption (like $10 for 1TB). Haven't had the time to look at their API.

You can always encrypt locally, but is there really any provider able to provide 1TB with that price?

4n0nx

@bigcat said:
You can always encrypt locally, but is there really any provider able to provide 1TB with that price?

Dropbox, Google drive, kimsufi servers,...