Most clouds store data in the nearest facility for reduced read write time. Some clouds replicate to other sites. Have been outages when a cloud site went down and the data was not available.
2022 Google outage when a fire occured. https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/google-alphabet/data-center-fire-google-suffers-electrical-incident-3-injured On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 10:45 AM Jon Perryman <jperr...@pacbell.net> wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 10:08:20 +0300, Arye Shemer <aryeshe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > one of the most important reason is the > >time frame that should be immediately (preferably tomorrow :-) ). > > One very important detail I did not mention is the location of your data in > the cloud. You may connect to a cloud location thinking that is where it will > be stored. In order to be more efficient, some clouds may redirect your > request to a closer location. Potentially the country of the requester. Why > send the data halfway across the world when their cloud has a location closer > to the point of origin. > > My assumption was that this was an ASAP request which is why I suggested FTP. > Someone could manually FTP the backups starting today and a REXX exec quickly > written to automate the process. Writing a cloud enabled program takes longer > which could be considered later when there isn't a time constraint. > > Another possibility you may not have considered is using one of your > satellite offices located in a different country using a PC with USB drives. > Transfer the backups to the USB drive and take the drive to a safe deposit > box or a company similar to the one you currently use. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
