steven mcphelan wrote:
local backup to individual clients. Local backups is also an option. Imagine the scenario where the ASP was in New Orleans and the backup in Biloxi. In this case whether you had backups done locally or the first case I mentioned, both would have failed. This whole issue of backup and recovery for the clinic situation is a difficult nut to crack in a cost effective manner that really works.
Is it? Now that gigabyte size transfers are common, doing an incremental backup across the atlantic isn't hard or even that expensive.
Don't trust the people holding the data? Then store an encrypted (incremental) backup (though you have to be pretty careful about integrity of the encrypted data).
Multiple automated incremental encrypted backups are quite doable. (eg: like in http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/209).
Given enough google invites you could even store it on a google filesystem (a GNU/Linux file system that uses google's mailspace for storing files). ;-)
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