Here’s some of articles regarding cheap online storage options for backup purposes.
- Eirik Solheims article here made me take a closer look on offline backup solutions for the home user.
- This article talks about using Amazon S3‘s cheap storage service for backup. Theres some hints here that the insanely cheap web hoster Dreamhost can be used for the storage bit by some of the tools.
- This article talks about backup tools to use as backup software with Amazon S3
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IBackup for Windows (www.ibackup.com/ibwin_new.htm) allows you to perform safe and quick backups and restores of files and folders. None other than the PC World magazine has rated IBackup as the `best all-around backup service.’
IBackup’s services include applications for interactive and automatic scheduling of backups with compression and encryption during transmission, incremental/full backups, synchronization, advanced logging and reporting. IBackup also allows backups of open files like Outlook and Quicken files. It also provides an easy, secure, fast and a reliable way to backup or restore MS Exchange Server databases to your IBackup account, backup or restore Microsoft SQL Server databases running on your computer to your IBackup account
IBackup has a great application called IDrive (www.ibackup.com/IBDrive_new.htm. Using this, you can map the online account as a local drive on your computer and work on the documents or data as if they are on your PC. Webmanager, their browser-based application, allows you to `privately share’ data with another IBackup user. The shared data becomes immediately available to the shared user and it integrates seamlessly with the shared user’s account.
IBackup supports backups for UNIX and Linux-based computers using rsync, the open source utility that provides fast incremental transfers. IDrive Multimedia, another variation of Network Drive technology (available only for XP and 2000), can stream multimedia content like video and audio using a media player. With this application, streaming of multimedia content is instantaneous.
You can also try IBackup Professional (www.ibackup.com/professional), which provides a secure, efficient, reliable, cost-effective and easy-to-use Internet-based backup solution. The files and folders you backup are encrypted with a user-defined key so that the data stored on IBackup Professional servers cannot be decrypted by anybody other than you.
I am trying to find a solution to find a backup program, preferably runing on Linux, that can use webdav or ftp. This will make it possible to use for instance Dreamhost as the offline backup storage. It must off course be able to do incremental backups after the first huge backup job.
Does anyone have sugestions for tools?