LinusTechTips Off-site storage solution

[Muny]

I heard linus discussing his search for off-site backup solutions, and complaining that whoever he was looking into wanted to charge him a lot to backup his 20TB server nightly.

 

I recently discovered Google's "Nearline" service, which provides relatively cheap storage for $0.01/GB.  That would be only $204.80 for 20TB.

 

Here's their product page: https://cloud.google.com/storage-nearline/

[Dabasepc]

i wouldnt put anything on their storage. privacy     

[TetraSky]

i wouldnt put anything on their storage. privacy     

This.

I can totally see Google trying to find a way to make money out of the data you upload to their servers.

 

At least with linus's current solution with their ISP, it's their own server, that they control.

[unijab]

Thats a monthly price...

 

Also his 200Mb/s upload speed....

 

(20 terabytes) / (200 megabits) =

800 000

 

so.... 800000 seconds / 60 sec/min / 60min/hr = ~222

 

Someone else confirm my math please?

 

Last I heard there are only 24 hours in a day.

[Muny]

 

Thats a monthly price...

 

Also his 200Mb/s upload speed....

 

(20 terabytes) / (200 megabits) =

800 000

 

so.... 800000 seconds / 60 sec/min / 60min/hr = ~222

 

Someone else confirm my math please?

 

Last I heard there are only 24 hours in a day.

 

 

Yeah, that's about right.  Using 1024 for byte -> bit, I got ~233 hours.  Ideally, he would only backup changed/added files, instead of the entire thing each night. Additionally, I'm sure when you add a compression layer (zip or tar.gz?) on top of that 20TB, it will compact down to something a little more reasonable.

[unijab]

The quickest way to make that backup is to a local system, then move that offsite.

[RZeroX]

Wouldn't google drive work as-well?

[Muny]

Wouldn't google drive work as-well?

 

Nearline is more optimized for archiving, which makes retrieval latency slower (the opposite of what you want for something like Google Drive). I think the price is relatively comparable though.

[PiGHamM3R]

A tech news show with Harry Potter... interesting.

I'm pretty sure someone has thought of Dropbox by now... What about BitTorrent Sync? Encrypt everything before sending it out. I'd be ok (most likely wouldn't happen) with having a LMG/LTT server at my place (it won't catch on fire because I have a #firepole). Not sure how my bandwidth would hold up, only 300Mb/s | 20Mb/s. I'll be fine with allocating 5TB of my server for the cause.