Pogoplug Pink - Rsync for shared hosting backup - viable?

[greenman]

I just found out my shared hosting provider isn't backing up nightly. That leaves me with a gap in my backup plan.
I figured I'd get a pogoplug, install arch linux and have it rsync/mysql-dump several websites via cron during the middle of the night onto a local usb harddrive. Then I'd set it up to zip the rsynced websites during the day, maybe once a week, and store the five-most-recent zips.

Shouldn't the pogoplug work fine for this application?

[WarheadsSE]

Sure, just be sure to not go over your data cap, use compression, and likely it would be best to use openssl-cryptodev for hardware encryption acceleration (adding the cryptodev module to rc.conf .. but that is in the forums [search])

[greenman]

Thanks, WarheadsSE. I'll be sure to install openssl-cryptodev and add it to the rc.conf. Cheers.