Offsite Backups – thoughts and planning
So I’ve been thinking about how best to accomplish reliable off-site backups of my important data for some time. I’ve got all my important stuff stored locally on an R5 array, so everything is happy and redundant. But, what happens if my house burns down or the computer holding the array gets stolen? I’d be up the proverbial creek, for sure.
So I’d like some way to take that important data, and replicate it off site.
I’ve been mulling the thought of using my hosting provider as off-site storage space, but hadn’t come up with an easy and reliable way to do it. Then I changed providers (now using dreamhost) and I now have full shell access to my host. This means I can rsync the entire set of my data to my web host and store it there.
While doing a bit of reading on rsync, I came across this post detailing setting up a Mac to use rsync with DreamHost. Exactly what I’m looking to do, except I need to do it from windows.
I also came across an application called DeltaCopy which is basically a windows friendly wrapper for rsync that doesn’t require cygwin libraries or anything.
So, the plan is to organize all my data so its’ easily backed up, then setup rsync to my dreamhost account using DeltaCopy from my home server.
After I get all that going, I may add on a web-enabled file manager to access the data with. We’ll see.
More to come…..
