Online solutions for website backups?

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wickedDUDE

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I'd like to keep a few recent web site backups online... with a reputable, trusted company.

My upload speed is crap, so if I ever needed to do a restore it would take me about a day to re-upload it in cpanel, providing nothing times out.

My host offered to do restores free of charge, but they want me to upload the backup by ftp. This would also take me about a day to upload.

In the event of a catastrophe, it would be easier just to give them access to some other web site where they can download the backup and restore it themselves.

Does anyone know of any companies that offer cloud storage or other solutions that would be good for this? I maybe need about 10 gb of space (this would allow multiple backups) to be stored, and don't mind paying a fee but would prefer yearly instead of monthly.

Thanks!
 


S3 looks like it might do the trick for me.

If I upload a .tar file to s3, can I give my web host an http address to download the file? (or would they need access to my account in some way)
 
http address would be fine(make sure it's a secure though), or ftp. also who's your host?...most hosts offer backup plans.
 
My host does back ups too but I always hear stories about back ups being wiped or carrying an older version of a site.

With S3 I assume a username/password would be needed to access the download file?
 
Dropbox could work, might be a bit more user friendly, the public folder would allow your host access to backup files.
 
Remote Backup using Rsync or FTP

Means you can use rsync instead of always uploading the whole lot. Then you can keep the backups fresh as well, and it will only upload the changes (even within a file) each time you run.

They're been around a long time and are very highly recommended on WebHostingTalk.

This is assuming you're using Linux or Mac OS X. I assume there must be rsync clients for Windows, but don't know if they are any good.
 
netbert said:
Remote Backup using Rsync or FTP

Means you can use rsync instead of always uploading the whole lot. Then you can keep the backups fresh as well, and it will only upload the changes (even within a file) each time you run.

They're been around a long time and are very highly recommended on WebHostingTalk.

This is assuming you're using Linux or Mac OS X. I assume there must be rsync clients for Windows, but don't know if they are any good.
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Rsync is powerful as shit. Love that thing.
 
I only use Windows so rsync wouldn't really be an option for me.

With dropbox can a file also be downloaded from a password-protected http:// location?

... just looking for something very simple folks
 
wickedDUDE said:
I only use Windows so rsync wouldn't really be an option for me.

With dropbox can a file also be downloaded from a password-protected http:// location?

... just looking for something very simple folks
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No password, but you choose the filename, and the files aren't publicly listed anywhere, so it would be like whatever.dropbox.com/Public/mysekritfilename_date_.tar you then right click the file to get the link. Try it free, I'm sure somebody can drop a referral link ;)
 
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