Amazon S3 and backups
The fact that we have no backup system at home has been bugging me for a long time now. I have been waiting for a decent NAS to be available that has RAID or something similar in it. Seeing a webcast about Drobo started me thinking about this again.
I have came to the conclusion though that what we really need is backup that is not in the house and stored in a well managed location. Given this, Amazon S3 is the best bet in my opinion. You pay a very low ongoing cost and it is stored on huge servers with incredible redundancy.
There are many tools out there to perform the backup itself but I decided to go with S3 Backup as it was easy to setup and had incremental support. Backups seem to be slow (factor of the internet connection upload speed rather than the application/service) but the incremental support will stop this from being a problem. Once again time will tell if the right decision has been made!
