Laura Cowen, Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Dave Walker and Tony Whitmore present the fifteenth episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.
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- A discussion on possible backup solutions after one of the team does something silly and loses a lot of data.
- New Chunky Sarcastic News
- Jono announces the new sponsorhip process for the next Ubuntu Developer Summit coming up in December.
- Jaunty Jackalope is announced as the code name of the next release (9.04) after 8.10 - Intrepid Ibex.
- New dark theme in Ubuntu 8.10.
- Dirac reaches version 1.0, and VLC releases 0.9.2 which supports it.
- Greg Korah-Hartman hits out at Canonical for not submitting more patches to upstream Linux kernel, in his keynote at the Linux Plumbers Conference.
- IBM releases Lotus Symphony Beta for Ubuntu.
- Crossover create a WINE based port of Chromium, the web browser Google Chrome is built upon.
- Time to announce the winner of the Bitfolk VPS competition from last time.
- A new competition to win a Canonical Store voucher.
- We have a heated discussion about 5-a-day.
- Feedback
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Hello all,
After listening to the discussion spawned by Ciemon’s rSync woes it struck me that you missed a great backup option that might be suitable for those that want off site backup, but don’t run their own VPS / server boxes and don’t want the hassle of learning rSync.
My suggestion : Amazon S3 and Jungledisk.
Pro’s:
- Data can be fully encrypted (using a private key, known only to you, which is done transparently by Jungledisk)
- Mounted drive via Fuse for easy drag and drop.
- Linux / Mac / Windows support for those that want cross platform compatibility.
- Jungledisk can provide a mounted volume on all three platforms that can just be dragged and dropped to.
- Offsite backup
- Jungledisk has a great easy to use GUI which allows a plethora of options including incremental backups / version tracking.
- Jungledisk also ships with a daemon for those that want easy offsite backup added to a server box (and can just be used as the front end to S3 and the fuse volume can be rSynced to).
- Not free (Jungle disk is $20 and S3 is $0.15 per Gb) but very very inexpensive, even for large amounts of data (I have around 50Gb up on S3 and the cost is around £5 per month)
Cons:
- The first backup can take a while depending on the amount of data you are pushing and your upstream bandwidth (rsync diffs to the fuse volume will improve this).
- Not free (but inexpensive)
- Jungledisk is not open source (to my knowledge - although they do provide demo code under the GPL for the S3 interface) for those purists who want to be completely free.
In my opinion this is a great way of providing a easy configurable, secure, multi platform stand alone backup or a simple bolt on to a server box to add off site backup. My backup solution:
- Server box running hardy server on RAID 5
- all my machines rsync to the server box over ssh tunnel.
- subversion on server box for version control
- server box runs jungledisk to provide a fuse volume, which is rsynced to once a day + a bash script to provide version history on a per file extension basis.
Just my two cents (I promise I don’t work for Jungledisk(!), but I have had nothing but a great experience with the software),
Keep up the good work on the podcast
Best,
Adam
Jungledisk : http://www.jungledisk.com
S3: http://www.amazon.com/s3
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