Ok, first things first: I realize that this is, in principle, totally off-topic for this forum. Nevertheless, I'm posting this here because I'm confident that there are quite a few people around here who could help me out in one way or another.
Anyway, here it goes:
Beside my Kindle hobby, I also have another hobby - I'm the IT admin of a University students' club. It's pretty small, so everything goes through a single machine, which serves as the gateway for the 3 internal computers, and at the same time acts as the web and mail server. Essentially, all vital data is stored on that one machine.
I do have a local backup strategy (using a second hard disk). What I do not have (anymore) at this moment is an off-site backup - if disaster strikes, and the entire server burns down... we're screwed.
So essentially, and pretty bluntly, I'm looking for some place which could serve as an off-site mirror for the data. And ... it shouldn't cost anything. We can't afford to pay, as we're a not-for-profit organization, and we're also struggling...
I'm not talking about a terrible lot of data (currently about 90 GB, and it's not expected to grow by more than, say, 20 or 30 GB per year). Data is changing rarely - normally, it's just the incoming mail that gets added, so a few MB per day. I'd want to run incremental backups daily, differential backups monthly, and full backups every 6 months.
Of course, I know that simply asking for someone to act as a "provider" doesn't really make sense, so here's the proposal: I'm willing to do the same for you, up to around 2 or 3 times my own data volume.
The server in question is online 24/7 (current uptime stats: "10:18:58 up 182 days, 9:46, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.11, 0.09"), and has very good connectivity thanks to being in the University network (1000baseT-FD , and it can in principle reach that speed both in and out). There's currently 1.5 TB of storage available (no RAID).
So yeah, to summarize: I'm looking for someone who could provide a reliable and decently connected Linux/BSD machine to store off-site disaster recovery backups on (rsync, duplicity, duply, or similar... a shell account should normally do), and I would provide the same in return.
If this sounds interesting to you, please contact me, either in this thread, or via PM. Please: serious offers only. Of course, other constructive comments are appreciated as well
