On the other hand, we need a word about that scrolljacking on your homepage...
Started with http://rsync.net/products/aws.html but all of them linked at the top are unreadable
I'm sure this converts better, but at the same time the site design and stock photos screams newish SaaS service that could disappear on me tomorrow. (I know better, it's just the impression I get)
Is there a blog posting or use case description for using it as a personal photos and videos backup solution? Something along the lines of best practices, approximate cost, any additional desktop tooling, etc.?
If so, I would love to be a customer.
Thanks!
rsync.net is a cloud service that provides a remote filesystem and ssh access. How do you envision using a remote storage provider to backup your laptop to your local server?
(rsync.net doesn't offer that, but it is not a totally outlandish idea that they could if you just know them as "cloud backup services")
Ah, if that is what you wanted to do, they don't need to offer anything more than they already do. There's no reason why you can't rsync your laptop to rsync.net and then rsync the fs on rsync.net back to your local server.
I usually like to keep most of my stuff backed up and that's almost 1 TB of data which would be very expensive to keep in the cloud.
So what I did was build a very cheap server with a WD Red HDD that I use to backup my full drive every couple of months.
I know I can probably use vanilla rsync but I really don't have the time to set up everything up and make sure it works, so I thought rsync.net could be a potential solution/alternative to CrashPlan.
Thanks for the answers though!
At 14 Cents Per GB / Month, rsync.net costs me ~$1720 per year for 1TB (14 * 1024 * 12 / 100).
S3 at 3 Cents Per GB / Month clocks in at ~$368 per year for 1TB (3 * 1024 * 12 / 100). Let's say I'm using a lot of transfer, so I'm going to double the price to ~$720 per year.
Still, rsync.net costs me $1000 more per year. Convince me :).
This is already addressed on the site.
Apart from latency, is there a difference? Would you upload your unencrypted data for long term storage to anyone?
I am very, very proud of the (very simple) platform that we've built there. It's a basic tool that "just works" - and just works exactly like you'd expect it to.
If I were a consumer of cloud storage, this is what I would want it to look like.
It pleases me so greatly to know that, right now, someone is doing something like this:
... while simultaneously, someone else is doing this: It's been 15 years now since we started providing this service - almost 11 since we branded it rsync.net - and the first warrant canary is now 10 years old. This appears to be, for now, my lifes work.