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Simple Backup on Linux and Ubuntu

stefan — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:18:37 +0000

Incremental encrypted remote backup using Amazon S3: Duplicity

Incremental backup to another (remote) directory: rdiff-backup

Easily available on Ubuntu using:

sudo apt-get rdiff-backup

Nice instructions for automating and scheduling backups.

Simple backup by simply tar’ing everything, instructions on Ubuntu Forums.

Preparing For EC2 Persistent Storage

stefan — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:54:03 +0000

Preparing For EC2 Persistent Storage.

Using LVM + DRBD + NFS + Heartbeat + VTun To Gain Data Persistence, Redundancy, Automatic Fail-Over, and Read/Write Disk Access Across Multiple EC2 Nodes.

Amazon Web Services lower costs

stefan — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:26:14 +0000

Amazon have started to do a lot things right lately. The 24×7 premium support, introducing the Service Health Dashboard, the latest improvements to EC2, and now lowering the data transfer costs:

Current data transfer price (through April 30, 2008)
$0.100 per GB – data transfer in
$0.180 per GB – first 10 TB / month data transfer out
$0.160 per GB – next 40 TB / month data transfer out
$0.130 per GB – data transfer out / month over 50 TB

New data transfer price (effective May 1, 2008)
$0.100 per GB – data transfer in
$0.170 per GB – first 10 TB / month data transfer out
$0.130 per GB – next 40 TB / month data transfer out
$0.110 per GB – next 100 TB / month data transfer out
$0.100 per GB – data transfer out / month over 150 TB