Moving data

[drwex]

Here's a bit of a poser. Let's say you had 10-12 gig of data on one PC and wanted to move it to another, with minimal fuss and no futzing about with opening the cabinet. What method would you use?

USB stick? USB hard drive? Burn multiple DVDs? In theory (I think) I could pay Mozy another $X/month and add another PC to my remote back-up plan. Once I had backed up the data off PC A I think it would let me restore it to PC B, but I haven't investigated that in detail.

ETA: I should have mentioned that they're in different locations and completely separate networks.

Comments

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Install Cygwin and initiate rsync-over-ssh-tunnel, through a shared third host if necessary.

That's "no fuss"?

[drwex]

It seems like a fair amount of fuss (though I do have cygwin installed). I'd have to figure out how to land an SSH session at the remote PC as well. Mozy seems like a simpler method.

Re: That's "no fuss"?

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

No, it's "minimal fuss."

Whether it's less fuss than the other solutions depends on the relative amount of fuss involved in:

* finding and/or purchasing a 12GB USB stick (!)
* trucking a physical storage drive around to your various locations
* sitting around in a data center or friends house waiting for an 8 hour USB data transfer to finish

Myself, I would rather spend a couple of hours futzing with software to figure out how to get sshd running under cygwin, and let the data transfer run unattended as long as it takes to finish. YMMV, of course.