[HECnet] A2RTR downtime

[Thomas DeBellis]

What/??/ €7.99 _flat rate_? /Unlimited/ storage?  That's less than $10 
American!!

The lowest I could find was about $10 for rsync.net, yet this was for 
400 GB, which isn't nearly what I need.

I'll definitely look at Jotta Cloud!
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> On 10/19/21 7:46 AM, Brian Hechinger wrote:
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> A bit late to this party, but if you're looking for an offsite backup 
> service I've been using Jotta Cloud and so far it's pretty nice. 
> Natively supports linux. Not too expensive either. I'm paying 
> €7.99/month for unlimited storage.
>
> -brian
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>> On 18/10/21 16:53, Zane Healy wrote:
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>> Take a look at Veeam, specifically the “Community Edition”.  You 
>> should also be able to take a look at the "Veeam Agent for Linux”, as 
>> you can simply run it on your Linux box, and point it at an NFS share 
>> or USB disk.  The community edition of Veeam Backup and Recovery 
>> allows you to backup 10 Physical or Virtual systems for free.  It’s 
>> only downside is that it needs to run on Windows.
>>
>> I do nightly Veeam backups of all the VMware VM’s that run my virtual 
>> DEC systems.  This has saved me in at least one case.
>>
>> Bare metal Veeam restores are an option, since you asked about “Bare 
>> Metal”, but that’s something I’ve not tested.
>>
>> Zane
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>>> On Oct 17, 2021, at 12:53 PM, Thomas DeBellis 
>>> <tommytimesharing at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> *Fourth*(and final) concerns RAID in an indirect way.  My Tops-20 
>>> systems are backed up on a quarterly basis and those backups 
>>> compressed and moved to alternate storage.  However, I have never 
>>> backed up any of the Ubuntu systems and, although I am running SSD 
>>> media, some of this is quite old and I'm starting to feel 
>>> uncomfortable out it.
>>>
>>> Were you aware of any winning backup solutions?  I can restore 
>>> Tops-20 to bare metal, but I really don't remember how to do this 
>>> for Unix (although I did know it for Ultrix at one point).  So I 
>>> starting looking.  Déjà Dup looks like it won't quite do what I 
>>> need, but since it uses duplicity, I started looking at that.
>>>
>>> Remember, even a RAID is no substitute for backup.  This was 
>>> probably more true in the days where a hardware RAID controller 
>>> error introduced a single point of failure; it may still be true for 
>>> a software RAID.
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