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[User Contributed - original in email archive]

> On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 10:17 -0500, SATLUGGER wrote:
> > <snip>
> > Get people interested in using free and open source software first and
> > some may make the transition to (GNU) Linux. It is much easier to sell
> > somebody on using Libre Office or Blender (arguably the best free
> > software available) or Gimp than to try and convince them to reformat
> > their hard drive and use a completely alien OS. 
> > <snip>
> > Very true. Imagine they say "sure go ahead put Linux on." What about
> > data back up? How many will not have backed up data or been unable to?
>

Same problem applies to all OS's. I am pinged a couple of times a month by users/friends that are freakin' because they accidentally overwrote/deleted a "critically important' file. None of them have a back strategy in place for this issue, and aren't willing to pay a couple bucks a month to get something set up (in the case of online) or just set up CrashPlan to backup to other of their own PC's.

For myself/family I use JungleDisk with Rackspace CloudFiles (or AmazonS3 depending) and have 2 processes:

- For the family members that have more than one PC, I have a Sync profile for documents, desktop, etc so that it syncs each PC - I have a Backup profile for each machine.

Costs about $0.15/Gb/Month. Between ZumoDrive (60GB@$20/Mo=33c/GB-Mo), S3 (275GB@$40/Mo=14.5c/GB-Mo), and JD/RS CF (50GB@7.50=15c/GB-Mo)+$5/Mo for JD+ and 2xJD Business Users. Thus, I store about 385GB online and spend about $70/month (or an average of $0.187/GB/Month).

CrashPlan has a couple tiers (10GB@25/Yr=20c/GB-Mo or Unlimited at 50/yr for 1PC or $120/Year for 10PCs) and SpiderOak charges $100/100GB-Yr=8.33c/GB-Mo.

Depending on your needs and the value of your data, that may or may not be worth it.

FWIW, I have just begun testing SpiderOak, but initial thought is that I may be moving my backups to either CrashPlan or SpiderOak, as they are cheaper than RSCF per GB and consolidates my backup data and management to one service.

> > What are the chances they'll format anyway and later blame Linux zealots > > for the loss of their kitten pictures?
>

Depends on the user. I have a couple that are more understanding than others.

> > What about a transition to FOSS roadmap / flow chart?
>

Good Idea.