Cheap backups

Posted by robbiebow on 30 September, 2007 under geek | 2 Comments to Read

Here’s the situation: as a cheapskate I’ve opted to downgrade from a dedicated server to a virtual server. Saves me £35 a month. Fine. However, it means I lose the terribly convenient backup storage that came with the dedicated server.

Now, as a cheapskate, I don’t want to end up paying for more storage somewhere else. But I noticed I get 150 mailboxes with the ISP and up to 25GB storage across the lot. So what I do is back up my server to a dedicated mail account. I just zip the folders I want to back up, split them if necessary into 40MB chunks, encrypt them, zip them up again and mail them to that dedicated account.

Simple, free, easy.