Peter Machell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tim Churches wrote: > > >Anyway, we're investigating this as a potentially convenient and very > cheap means of providing offsite encrypted back-up copies for mobile and > temporary (eg disease outbreak) public health data collection systems, > but it occured to me that it might be useful in the general practice > setting too. > > > We're now doing rsync backups over ssh (even on Windows) where we have > more than one site, or to a doctor's home from a single surgery. No-one > has taken me up on the suggestion that encrypted backups could be stored > amongst independant surgeries in the same manner.
Yes, I agree that reciprocal hosting of encrypted copies of backups is the most sensible thing to do (I do reciprocal hosting of backups of personal files at home with my dear old, who also has an Optus cable Internet connection), but the overhead of organising and maintaining all that may be more than just paying Amazon or who a few bucks per month. Also, Amazon may be a better bet if you want the backup copy at 3am on a Sunday morning. Maybe when every GP practices is running a 24x7 server to support all this SOA stuff which NeHTA sees as teh future <wink>. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
