On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 07:12:49PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:48:17 +0100
AG <computing.account@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hello AG,
Thus, can I please have a few recommendations for a backup routine
that is safe for dummies (i.e. me) and is low maintenance that I can
just leave to run according to a cron job once (or twice) a week? It
would be backing up to my former IDE HDD (now in an enclosure) via an
Unsatisfactory, IMO. Any back up should be made to a medium that can be
removed from the computer and, at the very least, stored in a different
part of the building.
My favourite for this is JungleDisk. It stores your files on Amazon's S3, and
as a backup program it's half decent. It's not free/libre/open-source, but
it's cheap (US$20), and you get free upgrades for life.
Oh, and S3 storage is cheap. $0.15/GB/mo, plus $0.10/GB upload/download.
I'm backing up about 150MB per day one place for about US$3/month.