I had been assuming that there is sufficient, say, RAID redundancy to protect my data against a single hard-drive failure, or against the failure of a single content server, and I suppose I had even assumed there were some kind of content backups in reserve against some kind of large failure.

It seems from your comment the last sentence is not correct, at least in terms of *off-site* backups, so it would be nice to be clear on what we are relying on if we decide not to sign up for this service.

For detailed information about filesystem redundancy and backup procedures, you need look no further than our FAQ. -jdw

I actually looked at rsync.net awhile back to recommend to friends/family who don’t make backups, but was put off by their “minimum” order size of 3 GB. That’s WAY more than casual users need. I’m glad that NFSN was able to get around that restriction.

So, I get a fully featured rsync.net account, right? E.g. I can backup my local machine with the same account? And NFSN has a separate subaccount…

Continuing with this, I don’t have to pay for a minimum 3 GB quota as I would have to if I opened an account separately with them?

I pay $1.40 per rsync.net-stored gigabyte per (30-day) month *for everything* — NFSN backed data plus my data, right?

I don’t have a quota, I can scale up or down, I only pay for what I use?

Basically, if I opt-in for this, I get a *regular* rsync.net account that is cheaper, has no minimum or maximum quotas and I can use it for everything as if I opened an account directly with them, am I right?

Regards,
– Sime

You are right. -jdw

I have a small account with rsync.net with my own local backups, and they have indeed always struck me as taking a similar no-nonsense, don’t-get-in-my-way attitude.

This is a great new feature. Thanks!

1.40$/mo/gb (if correct) including transfer is really cheap.

I don’t understand the comparison against S3 as this is a very different service, is not designed for backups but to provide cloud storage, and is really complicated and ugly for backup uses compared to the beauty of a standard rsync.

I didn’t know about rsync.net, at the moment I’ve a bqbackup rsync account (similar service), but they’re going downhill in the past months with a lot of overselling and “no space left on device” errors, so I am planning to cancel them and trying rsync.net …

If I understand correctly (English is not my first language, I live in southern europe, sorry :-]) you do provide a full rsync.net backup account (as a “reseller”), and I can use this account both for backing up my NFS hosting, AND my dedicated server via standard rsync over ssh account, and I will be billed at 1.40$gb/mo as a whole on my NFS account/credit both for MY backups, and MY NFS backups ?

This would be great.

[this is good]

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