Raid 5 versus 3 computer backup

[sethg at ropine.com (Seth Gordon)]

Doug wrote:
> Based on this, I will rsync my data to a third box in the house, and
> rsync once a week. Any others use the 3 machine idea?

A third alternative is to use offsite backup.

For one of my computers, I arranged with a friend to share disk space,
so every night I do an incremental dump and back up to his machine, and
he does the same and backs up to mine.

My wife uses unison to back up her laptop to our OpenHosting server.  At
some point, given OpenHosting's incremental per-megabyte charge, we will
probably set up an Amazon S3 account and use JungleDisk for backups instead.

> 
> doug
> 


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