Backup Basics

[Murray Stokely]

A fair point, and in that case perhaps a short paragraph introducing
the reader to the class of cloud based online backup systems as a
viable alternative to tape backup solutions in 2009, rather than
listing any specific services.  A final sentence could then invite the
reader to peruse google or the commercial vendors page for specific
services.

              - Murray

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Colin Percival<cperciva at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Murray Stokely wrote:
>> I'd really like to see a new section here about commercial cloud based
>> backup offerings, including TarSnap as the most FreeBSD-friendly
>> variety, but also including some of the other services built on AWS or
>> other cloud services that can be used with FreeBSD.
>
> Thanks for the plug. :-)
>
> There are a couple of companies listed under http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/
> as providing backup services (www.ahsay.com, www.exavault.com) but I don't see
> anything special about them aside from the fact that they presumably submitted
> PRs asking to be added -- to be honest, I'm not entirely certain why there is a
> "Commercial Vendors" page on the FreeBSD website at all when google does a much
> better job of finding vendors.
>
> While I'm always eager to have more people hear about tarsnap, I think putting
> any sort of list of vendors into the handbook would just end up as a huge mess
> unless there's a very clear policy about which companies get listed -- and I
> really can't imagine how to draw up such a policy.
>
> --
> Colin Percival
> Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve
> Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
>