backup servers

Randy

just wondering which provider do you guys go for your backup server? (where you keep your main server's data)

any Budget ones? ovh seems good but i would like USA BASED

Suggest me some USA based :D

i dont really stick with my main provider for a 2nd server, would like somewhere else.

VD seems attractive. but many users had issues with them besides our lucky @Jack :D

GetKVM_Ash

Datashack

tux

OVH BHS is Canadian based: http://www.ovh.com/fr/serveurs_dedies/commande_usa_beta.xml

Randy

@GetKVM_Ash said: Datashack

I KINDA lose faith with them their sales are not responding to me

Jack

@Randy said: VD seems attractive. but many users had issues with them besides our lucky @Jack :D

I spoke to them today about that thread on LET :)

Jack,

Clients for about 2 weeks were getting DDoSed attacked left and right. Mostly game servers. Probably people who were banned. Has the network been more stable over ?the last few days? We haven't seen any outages like we did.

GetKVM_Ash

Its nice that they release personal info.

Jack

@GetKVM_Ash said: Its nice that they release personal info.

How is that Personal info? @GetKVM_Ash

Randy

that is nice.

Randy

how long did your server came online jack? setup time

Damian

Amazon AWS->S3. $43/month to store all of our data, at the moment. Very yes.

Randy

can it hold up to 1TB?

Jack

@Randy said: how long did your server came online jack? setup time

26 hours.

I'd wait a few weeks they will have a new offer at about $50~

Damian

@Randy: It can hold up to several petabytes, as I recall.

http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html will give you a pricing breakdown. It's not low-end, though.

Jack

@Randy

Try FDCServers.net

Backup plan #1 = $39/mo

They have no 200GB disks in only 1TB+ so :)

gsrdgrdghd

@Randy said: can it hold up to 1TB?

Dropbox stores all the user files on Amazon S3, so yes it will likely be able to hold any amount that you want to store.

netomx

As I recall, sending data to amazon was free, so, if you keep just sending backups, it´s free, isn't it?

HalfEatenPie

@netomx I believe so although you'd be paying during the times you'd have your VPS turned on (its like 10 cents an hour or something).

Also if you needed to remove your backups, that's when the money comes into play.

Randy

well. i would rather get an other box for backups;-)

netomx

@HalfEatenPie

Hasta 10 TB/mes  $0,120 per GB

too cheap

Taz

Ovh kimsufi should be perfect for.backup servers if you are renting or may be hetzners backup server plans.

HalfEatenPie

@netomx lol I wasn't really doing research but yeah that sounds good

netomx

@HalfEatenPie said: sounds good

http://aws.amazon.com/en/ec2/

and as I read on this blog: http://www.blackpepper.co.uk/black-pepper-blog/Using-Amazon-EC2-EBS-S3-for-automated-backups.html

you can use a script to turn on your macine, rsync, then shut off. So, maybe a dollar a month

gsrdgrdghd

Why do you want to use an EC2 instance for creating backups?

netomx

@gsrdgrdghd said: EC2 instance for creating backups?

why not?

jarland

Monthly local backup encrypted and stored in a very safe place. Daily backups on a backup drive in the system. Weekly backups to buyvm and about to add hostigation. You can't beat hostigation $10 OpenVZ. Some serious storage there.

Spencer

@netomx said: why not?

More money...

gsrdgrdghd

@netomx said: why not?

No the question is not "why not", the question is "why". I could also ask you "why not turn on your Microsoft Azure VM when making a backup to Amazon S3?"

netomx

@Spencer said: More money...

specify more money - Example:

3 gb of data in my current server - $0.10 per GB-month of provisioned storage 1 hour of micro instance per month (just the 1st rsync will eat a lot of time) - $0,020 3 GB first month - $0,120 per GB

then, as rsync works, you can't use more than 1 GB, so this will be $0 after 1st month.

Total 1st month: $0.542 USD

gsrdgrdghd

To summarize: You want to to backups to Amazon S3 by launching an EC2 instance every time you do an backup and then rsync your files to the EC2 instance? And you want to do, lets say, daily backups?

netomx

@gsrdgrdghd said: And you want to do, lets say, daily backups?

well, i don't want. It is just an idea, you know?

and, well, another backup is never enough

gsrdgrdghd

@netomx said: well, i don't want. It is just an idea, you know?

So you will be paying $2.4/month just for the EC2 instances. There is simply no reason to use EC2 instances when you want to do backups to S3.