Looking for cheap backup space

[Crazy]

As the site keeps growing, both in database and files, I need a place to put my backups.

My current backup space is full, deleted older backups freeing up some space, but it'll be full again in a couple of days.

Does anyone know of a cheap backup location?

FTP or SSH(rsync) are both fine. My current backup solution uses ftp.

I need at least 250gb for allot of manga's

If I can not find a good alternative I'll need to use some magic fairy dust in my backup scripts that would have to place my files all over the web, that would be pretty anoying and hard do manage.

[darkx]

Try iDrive.com?

[rashkae]

At over $100 / month, most cost efficient backup very quickly becomes DIY.

500GB hard drives cost less than $50 CAD now.

ftp/sftp/rsync server needs very little cpu/memory.  should be possible to find a used system for very little $$ (if not outright free), add 2 hard drives in a raid 1 array,, setup dynamic host name (dyndns.org) and ask a friend to keep it in their basement for you (and to forward a port from router for ssh) and your done.  Put it somewhere that you can retrieve the machine if you need to restore lots of data (most people with residential Inet will have lots of download bandwidth, so incremental updates to the backup would be no problem, but limited upload would make restoring from Internet too slow)

[Crazy]

@darkx

iDrive is software, the site doesn't run on a desktop client , it's a dedicated linux box, no UI etc.
Needs to be ssh or ftp. Doesn't look like iDrive has that.

For desktop stuff I use Nomadesk

@rashkae

My last option is partially backing it up at home, don't really want to, upload speed is 125kb/s, max transfer/month is 80gb, so sux big time(ISP in belgium suck in general).
I have plenty of pc's at home that can be used for backup, but it's always the internet connection that's a problem.
So I need to buy some ftp space somewhere, just need to know where that somewhere can be

[stoppable]

Hi crazy, i dont know much about back up stuff so i just looked at a list i saw on the internet and i found these 3 sites, hope they can help, the last one i believe that there's a package that supports SSH.


http://www.000webhost.com/
http://www.ibackup.com
http://byethost.com/index.php/paid-hosting
And keep up the good work, best manga site ever 

[XReader]

Don't know what budget we are looking at, but here are a couple of comparison listing I found interesting:
http://www.crashplan.nl/remote-backup/online-backup-price-comparison.html
(Table 2 is the focus, though hopefully private/home/work station tag works for you)

http://tomuse.com/ultimate-review-list-of-best-free-online-storage-and-backup-application-services/
(This one is a spread sheet, be sure to click on the link to get to the full spread sheet.  It would need some sorting to find the ones you want)

The unlimited plans from Crashplan seem promising.  Though, never use them myself so I can't be sure.  Hope this helps.

-XR

[bambang_314]

how about ADrive (adrive.com)

you can look at their package at

Code:

http://www.adrive.com/plans

FTP can be used only by signature and  premium user, 7 and (start at)14 $ a month respectively

ps: i only free member. maybe u can ask additional information from them

[mcoder]

For free hosting, try the search engine on http://www.freewebspace.net/

If you can do http uploads, why not megaupload ?  http://megaupload.com/?c=premium
or jumbofiles http://jumbofiles.com/premium.html

In France, the most used hosting service is ovh, and you can get 250 Gb at 10 euros per month (and 2 Tb traffic): http://www.ovh.com/fr/hebergement_mutualise/

I also recommend that you check the web hostings in different countries:
http://www.webhosting.info/webhosts/tophosts/global/

A quick look at the top sites gives:
http://www.hostgator.com/shared.shtml at $5 per month, with unlimited bandwidth/disk space and SSH.
or 1and1.com, with $5 per month, unlimited bandwidth and 250Gb disk space and SSH.
or http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting.html ($9, unlimited)
or GoDaddy: http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/web-hosting.aspx?ci=9009 ($10, unlimited)

[Crazy]

services like freewebspace, hostgator, dreamhost, godaddy will not allow me to put 250gb on it, it says unlimited but...., it's not

Megaupload premium looks good, didn't know they had FTP.

Ovh looks good as well, I knew them from their dedicated servers.

1and1.com seems to good to be true, good alternative. Their tos says not to use it for backup, but if I don't overdo the bandwidth usage then don't think they'll complain.

I've got a ticket in with my own provider as well to increase the FTP size, just waiting for the pricing(not listed on the website anymore).


If my own provider is to expensive I'll go with the megaupload plan, look very good.