I have a server running Linux that’s in my closet. It has a bunch of stuff on it (roughly 200 gigabytes) that I’d like to have backed up remotely. In case the data is lost somehow. I don’t trust my cat.
Strongspace is what I used to use (and still use for really important things, as I have a lifetime account with them), but $100/mo for 100 gigs of space seems a little overpriced.
Luckily, Amazon offers S3, a service where you can save unlimited amounts of data for very cheap. Storing 200 gigs of data would cost me, at 15 cents per gigabyte per month, $30/mo, which is much more reasonable. And I’m sure the price will come down over time.
Unfortunately, S3 doesn’t have a web interface for accessing your data. The service is intended to be used by programmers, so you have to have a program access everything. I’m using s3sync, a program written in Ruby that mimics rsync. It’s been working great. My internet connection sucks, so I can only upload at 30kB/s, and I have 200 gigabytes… will take the rest of this month to back everything up.
If you really want to be able to access your s3 data in a web browser, your best bet is a Java program called Cockpit.
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