On 30 Sep 2007, at 12:33, Grant wrote:
Where do you guys store your backups? Leaving backups on a DVD in the
same apartment as the machines doesn't make too much sense to me.
Maybe I should mail em to my parents every week or something?
- Grant
Offsite backups are a good idea if your data is important to you. I
have several servers around the world so setting up rsync mirrors is
pretty painless. Then I burn to DVD remotely.. (I have trained people
enough so that when the tray opens they replace the DVD with a blank)
You might want to look at doing a stage 4 backup and then sending
that file to one of those online storage services. A quick google
shows there are many out there offering 2-25GB of free storage. There
are some non-free services designed specifically for backup where you
don't pay to upload but do pay when you want to get your data (which
given it is a backup I assume you would be highly motivated to pay if
a restore is required) A few months back I looked into Amazon's S3 to
automate offsite storage of backups. I never implemented anything
though.
I would encrypt anything sent to one of those online storage services.
--
Christopher
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