On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:00:01AM +0100, Matthew Moore wrote:
> On 29/08/13 09:46, Murray Crane wrote:
> > Just "testing the waters" at this juncture, making sure that our plan
> > isn't going to make Andy angry or anything like that.
> >
> > I have two VPS's with bitfolk; my personal one and one that I am
> > donating to the virtual airline I am currently president of (on
> > separate servers). I'm thinking that for the purposes of backup of the
> > VA VPS, I can rsync the web folder over to a holding area on my
> > personal VPS on a daily basis, and do more traditional "everything"
> > backups (again, rsync) less frequently.
> >
> > Is this feasible/considered an "OK" thing to do (Andy)? Would I be
> > better off raising a support ticket to have the backups done by
> > Bitfolk (assumes you're not already, o'course)?
>
> Personally (I'm not Andy) I'd say that its your bandwidth, that you've
> paid for so you can do what you want with it.
IIRC (and again, I'm not Andy), if you're transferring between
Bitfolk VPSes, that data doesn't traverse Bitfolk's uplink to the rest
of the internet, so they don't pay for the bytes, so I think the
transfer doesn't even get accounted for.
Hugo.
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