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Re:Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro by jonnynezbo on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @10:33AM (#8232308)
I've been waiting on this for a long time. Now Dropbox might actually be a viable, affordable off-site backup solution.
Re:Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro by ptwiggens on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @11:00AM (#8232462)
Dropbox isn't ideal for backup at all.

Look into Crashplan. Client-side encryption, unlimited versioning, never deletes files, and only $6/month for truly unlimited backup.

Re:Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro by StavrosK on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @11:47AM (#8232721)
Does it have an OSS Linux client, even headless?

All I want is to encryptedly back up some directories on my home server, but nothing* really does that. I use SpiderOak at the moment, but it's not OSS.

* Except attic, but I'd rather pay for a service as important as this (I don't trust the remote server to not lose files): http://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/

Re:Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro by toomuchtodo on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @11:56AM (#8232768)
Re:Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro by cbhl on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @12:15PM (#8232912)
It's also worth asking for the HN discount on rsync.net if you're going to sign up with them.
Re:Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro by StavrosK on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @12:05PM (#8232859)
Thanks, but both of those are extremely expensive for backing up photos and various files (100 GB worth).
Re:Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro by rsync on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @12:57PM (#8233176)
Just a note since we're on the topic ...

- HN Discount for new customers is 10c per GB, per month. No charges for usage or traffic, etc.

- We just began announcing 3c pricing for 1PB and above. That may be more space than you require, however.

We've adjusted our pricing quite a bit in the last 30 days in conjunction with offering our PB filesystems, etc.

It's always worth emailing us.

Re:Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro by hemancuso on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @01:10PM (#8233277)
Curious if the multi-pb accounts are in a single flat namespace. Or even the same filesystem... 1PB of ZFS seems scary
Re:Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro by toomuchtodo on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @01:21PM (#8233349)
> 1PB of ZFS seems scary

Why so?

Re:Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro by hemancuso on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @01:26PM (#8233378)
I meant in one filesystem. No obvious way to construct a single zpool anywhere near that big.

And if not one filesystem, curious how it would work in practice.

Re:Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro by rsync on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @03:40PM (#8234296)
We currently allow 1.1 PB in a single "namespace" (zpool).

There are non-obvious ways to make a petabyte-sized zpool non-scary ... but even with those employed we still utilize raidz3 and have contingencies for rollbacks.

edit: for obvious reasons, that 1.1 PB number will grow by 50% in the very near future...

Re:Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro by hemancuso on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @09:37PM (#8235542)
It's easy enough to jam enough disks into a rack with these 90disk 4u super micro jbods. The thing that always scared me (ESP with rsync) is how do you get performant metadata for a few billion files? Or even tens of millions.

And raidz3 resilver must be horrible at those densities!

Again. Just curious. Email at jmancuso@expandrive if you feel like chatting. I know we offer a similar product, but we are about to leave zfs for the above concerns. Wouldn't mind sending some business your way.

Re:Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro by jacquesct on Sunday August 31, 2014 @08:49AM (#8249181)
Any hints at what filesystem you are moving Strongspace over to? Assuming that you will be moving off SmartOS as well?
Re:Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro by hemancuso on Wednesday September 03, 2014 @12:14PM (#8263709)
Distributed object storage

Filesystem: ExpanDrive :)

Re:Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro by AndrewAtCode42 on Thursday August 28, 2014 @10:04AM (#8237222)
No OSS linux client, but we do have a closed source one. CrashPlan Does work headless[1], but note that that setup out of the scope for our support team.

1: https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/Latest/Configuring/Conf...

Re:Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro by bentcorner on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @12:16PM (#8232921)
I can't say one way or another if the client is OSS, but I do know you can run it headless, I've done it before.

IIRC, you need to tweak a non-headless client to direct it to the headless instance (some config file to point to the server vs localhost) and everything works from there.

Re:Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro by jonnynezbo on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @11:08AM (#8232503)
I'm already on the CrashPlan Family Plan. I love it. In all reality, I doubt I will get rid of Crashplan any time soon.
Re:Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro by Soyuz on Thursday August 28, 2014 @01:57AM (#8236056)
CrashPlan is great and encrypted at rest and transmission. But, I prefer services outside US