I don't actually use this, I just followed its development. For my backups, I have a script that spins up an Amazon EC2 instance, mounts an EBS disk and does an old-fashioned rsync of my entire machine.
This does mean I pay for the entire disk all the time every month, plus the EC2 time, and it's probably slower and more expensive than an equivalent brackup, but I also didn't have to think about it.
Right now, the EBS disk isn't bootable, but I could make it so and in theory just boot up an EC2 instance and immediately have my entire machine at the state it was last backed-up as.
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bradfitz's brackup supports securely backing up data to S3 (and elsewhere), including incremental backups.
http://code.google.com/p/brackup/
I don't actually use this, I just followed its development. For my backups, I have a script that spins up an Amazon EC2 instance, mounts an EBS disk and does an old-fashioned rsync of my entire machine.
This does mean I pay for the entire disk all the time every month, plus the EC2 time, and it's probably slower and more expensive than an equivalent brackup, but I also didn't have to think about it.
Right now, the EBS disk isn't bootable, but I could make it so and in theory just boot up an EC2 instance and immediately have my entire machine at the state it was last backed-up as.