From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 16 21:38:03 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5EA2106564A for ; Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:38:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from xps.daemonology.net (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A794214EDAC for ; Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:37:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 5499 invoked from network); 16 Aug 2009 21:37:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO xps.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Aug 2009 21:37:48 -0000 Message-ID: <4A887C2C.6010608@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:37:48 -0700 From: Colin Percival User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090808) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Murray Stokely References: <986a34160908161107g6bbb1d8bj94e6ad4d9b01f2e5@mail.gmail.com> <2a7894eb0908161424w5c2d49c0m8017325a53eb66db@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2a7894eb0908161424w5c2d49c0m8017325a53eb66db@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: doc@freebsd.org, Edu Carneiro Subject: Re: Backup Basics X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:38:03 -0000 Murray Stokely wrote: > I'd really like to see a new section here about commercial cloud based > backup offerings, including TarSnap as the most FreeBSD-friendly > variety, but also including some of the other services built on AWS or > other cloud services that can be used with FreeBSD. Thanks for the plug. :-) There are a couple of companies listed under http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/ as providing backup services (www.ahsay.com, www.exavault.com) but I don't see anything special about them aside from the fact that they presumably submitted PRs asking to be added -- to be honest, I'm not entirely certain why there is a "Commercial Vendors" page on the FreeBSD website at all when google does a much better job of finding vendors. While I'm always eager to have more people hear about tarsnap, I think putting any sort of list of vendors into the handbook would just end up as a huge mess unless there's a very clear policy about which companies get listed -- and I really can't imagine how to draw up such a policy. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid