From: Sanjay A. <san...@gm...> - 2009-03-03 00:23:04
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Hello all I would like to know if it s possible to implement backupPC on the Amazon cloud or any similar virtual hosting, so that local storage/risk issues may be avoided? Also, how is it possible to store the hard-disk partition information and to restore the partitions, followed by restoring all files from backupPC? What are the issues involved? Is some project doing it? What kind of extension would be required to do it under backupPC? With best regards. Sanjay. |
From: Omar L. C. D. <om...@ts...> - 2009-03-03 12:13:11
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Sanjay Arora escribió: > Hello all > > I would like to know if it s possible to implement backupPC on the > Amazon cloud or any similar virtual hosting, so that local > storage/risk issues may be avoided? > Hi, I think is not a problem to implement a backupPC on Amazon, but you must to have a AMC2 for the virtual machine and AMS3 for storage your information. Because if happens something with your virtual machine or "I'm not sure" restarting this , you will lost your information, but if you have AMS3 with your files, no will be a problem. Also you have to think in price for the transfer of your files, you pay for GB in or out from your virtual machine. Regards. Omar Llorens Crespo Domínguez JPL TSOLUCIO S.L om...@ts... 902 886 938 Spain > Also, how is it possible to store the hard-disk partition information > and to restore the partitions, followed by restoring all files from > backupPC? What are the issues involved? Is some project doing it? What > kind of extension would be required to do it under backupPC? > > With best regards. > Sanjay. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > Bac...@li... > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > > |
From: Tino S. <bac...@ti...> - 2009-03-03 13:06:35
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On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 12:36:28PM +0100, Omar Llorens Crespo Domínguez wrote: > > I would like to know if it s possible to implement backupPC on the > > Amazon cloud or any similar virtual hosting, so that local > > storage/risk issues may be avoided? The most basic questions for deploying BackupPC somewhere non-standard: - Does it support Perl? - Does the file system support hard links? Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.craniosacralzentrum.de |
From: Sanjay A. <san...@gm...> - 2009-03-20 21:25:34
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On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Tino Schwarze <bac...@ti...>wrote: > On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 12:36:28PM +0100, Omar Llorens Crespo Domínguez > wrote: > > > > I would like to know if it s possible to implement backupPC on the > > > Amazon cloud or any similar virtual hosting, so that local > > > storage/risk issues may be avoided? > > The most basic questions for deploying BackupPC somewhere non-standard: > - Does it support Perl? > - Does the file system support hard links? > > Tino. > It does seem that Amazon supports hardlinks because there are a few backup vendors selling backup services hosted on amazon cloud and confirming hardlinks are supported, though in my search I found no amazon links giving any info on this issue one way or the other. While researching on this issue I found a similar offering called jungle disk, recently acquired by rackspace, which seems to offer backup services similar to those one would create at the amazon cloud at roughly one third the cost or lower is the uploading bandwidh is slow. In fact they offer amazon cloud as a storage option at a higher cost. I think it would provide rsync type backup without the file duplication savings that backuppc provides, when more than one similar pc is being backed up. Can anyone suggest a cloud or other hosted application which can provide backup using backuppc or similar option? With regards. Sanjay. |