Re: Cloud backup/archiving?

["Martyn Wendon" <martynwendon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've not got any physical Windows Server machines anymore and didn't
want to
run anything on the OpenFiler NAS directly (I don't think that there's a
Linux client for JungleDisk anyway?)

The VM is a member server in the domain so has access to any data that I
want to back up over SMB and I wanted to have a dedicated VM for the task
as
it makes admin / support easier (e.g. I can vMotion the VM to another host
if needed).

I went with the Server edition, but can't remember why now - might have
been
to do with the UNC shares?  The one thing that I can't do is physically
view
the files on the JungleDisk web interface which I believe you can do with
the Desktop edition.

Make sure you do some basic sums as the charges model is based not only on
storage space but the amount of "puts" and "gets" that
their client software
does, so it may not be good for data that changes lots.  Their client is
pretty good though in that it is "block" based, so it will only
transfer the
bits (literally!) that have changed in files e.g. a few MB a day in one of
my multi-GB Outlook OST files.


Cheers,

Martyn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Gale" <groups2@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 2:22 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Cloud backup/archiving?


> Sounds good - why the VM?
>
> It does seem quite cost effective - did you go with the desktop
edition?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Martyn Wendon
> Sent: 13 August 2010 13:29
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Cloud backup/archiving?
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> I went with JungleDisk a few months back following Mark's
recommendation.
>
> I set up a dedicated VM (Win2K3) to run the JungleDisk software and
have
> it backing up various UNC network shares off an OpenFiler NAS and
several
> other storage devices.
>
> It's been faultless so far and quite cost effective.  I have about
40GB of
> critical stuff on S3 and it's costing around $6 a month....
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Martyn
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Gale" <groups2@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 10:40 AM
> Subject: [ukha_d] Cloud backup/archiving?
>
>
>> I'm looking at using some form of cloud backup for my HA PC and
servers -
>> maybe a service like Jungle disk or simply using a prog like
goodsync in
>> combination with Amazon S3 or Rackspace account. Seems relatively
cheap.
>>
>> Not sure yet if I want to backup the whole OS - probably just
critical
>> data so far. Some data is also on shared network drives, so those
>> services
>> that don't allow mapped drives are out.
>>
>> Anyone doing this? Any thoughts / pointers / recommendations?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Paul.
>>
>>
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