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On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Gibbs wrote:
On 08/08/11 11:20, Gordon Henderson wrote:You can backup about 1GB overnight when the remote site has standard ADSL. Maybe push that that 2GB if they have 800Kbps uploading and you use compression.I do lots of backups from remote sites overnight - and in some cases the data sets are 100's of GB, but using rsync keeps it all relatively sane... Until someone on a remote site renames a directory, then it all falls apart!!!The server I have at work has about 250GB+ worth of data and a poor upload speed. It will get there but the fact it changes daily doesn't help!
In my world, there's no excuse for a company broadband system to have a poor upload speed. Even one client I have who can only get 2Mb/sec in, gets 700Kb/sec out... However...
But how much changes daily? Other than my own stuff, my busiest customer that I do off-site backups for (a web design company), rarely changes more than a few 100MB of data a day, but it's all going to depends on the workload and what they do - the time I see a big change with these guys is a brand new customer with a digital camera of images to be manipulated!
On 08/08/11 11:20, Gordon Henderson wrote:Sometimes it's nice to build something to get a better understanding though - then once you have an idea, you can use hosted stuff for commercial solutions - testing, experimenting locally before moving stuff off-site...I agree - I was responding more to the part of providing a hosting service from home. If he wants to host from home that's fine but I wouldn't deploy anything worthy there! Even with unmanaged VPS services you still don't take responsibility for hardware issues, power cuts, electricity etc which is a lot less hassle.I can still remember the buzz I got from assembling and getting my own server running the first time so I definitely don't want to discourage it!
Indeed! Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq