From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] s3venti
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:39:23 EST."
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From: Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:44:53 -0800
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On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:39:23 EST "Richard Bilson" <rcbilson@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > what usage senerio do you have in mind for venti/s3?
>
> I wanted "set it and forget it" off-site backups, at a reasonable cost
> and without significant capital outlays or maintenance. I.e., mirror
> an existing venti with a cron job, or use it as a target for vbackup.
> As you point out, whether the cost of S3 is reasonable depends on how
> much you have to store, and how much it's worth to you to store it. I
> don't intend to use it for my mp3s, for instance.

In using S3 for off-site backups I would worry about the time
to restore a failed disk (apart from the privacy issues).  As
an example restoring a 100GB disk over the 'net at a constant
300KB/s of download speed can take close to 4 days.  Of
course, these days many people have much more data than that.

May be there are other remote backup companies that provide a
"copy your data to disk and deliver it overnight" service for
an extra charge.