Cheap backups
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.
..and what is wrong with rsyn? even Taoist can master that!
cheapskate? ;)
Actually, I *do* rsync from the server to a VM machine on my home PC as well as using POP3 backups. The advantage being that I can access POP3 anywhere (work, home, abroad).