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Cheap? Pish. A lot of server hosts have a local backup solution.

For a 2GB Linode, we're talking about backing up 96GB of storage. More than that, three backups are made (daily, weekly and 2-weekly). 288GB of active backup storage. Handled for you. For $10 a month.

Amazon is over twice that before you even consider the hassle of setting it up and restoring backups.

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Until linode breaks or is compromised and your server and backups both get broken or hacked and deleted.

I don't trust hosting my server and backups with the same company. I backup to s3 with s3 credentials that forbid removal; files are expired out of the duplicity-related s3 buckets using native amazon functionality, not duplicity. It does mean there are some stale incrementals, but that's a small price to pay.

Homepage at linode.com lists 2GB Linode at $40 a month. Am I missing something?

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