While there are some fantastic cloud backup proposals mentioned, I think it would be wise to point out that pushing your data into the cloud isn't enough. In order to have a proper backup solution, we should have our data in several locations. Carbonite, Mozy and a few of the other proposals will delete your data from their systems if you delete the data off of your local hard drive.
Peter Krogh, which he calls Digital Asset Management (http://www.thedambook.com/), gives great advice. Essentially, for a complete and total backup solution, we should follow a 3-2-1 method. 3 different locations (hard drives, computers, thumb drives, etc), 2 different types of media and 1 off-site location. If your data is important, then it is essential to store it in multiple locations. Companies are fallable, and we can look at examples of twitter, google, flickr, and other services being down for hours at a time. We are reminded by recent examples with T-Mobile and the sidekick, how even a large company can accidentally lose all your data. --Ryan On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:16 PM, eagle63 <[email protected]> wrote: > Another vote for CrashPlan. (I'm surprised so few people know about > this) With CrashPlan you don't have to backup to a central server > (though you can if you want). Instead, you can backup to other > machines (as many as you like/can afford) and it's completely free. > Me and a couple of buddies do this with our machines and it works > great - offsite encrypted backups that's dead simple. Plus it's a > Java app so what a fitting solution!! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
