On 25/10/11 17:21, Nick Rout wrote: >>>> I advocate having everything important stored *both* locally *and* on the >>>> net. >>> When done appropriately, I agree. Dropbox isn't for anything you want >>> kept securely though. >> I've often thought of partnering with someone in a different city to >> mirror each others important data. >> > I back up my office server to amazon s3 every night and get bills in > the order of $0.19 (yes 19 cents) a month. For the hassle of pairing > up with someone else, and ensuring their server is up when you want to > back up, and vice versa, and their hard drive isn't about to die, that > the data on theor machine is encrypted etc etc I think amazon provides > a good solution. > >> The advantage is that you can partner with someone you know and trust. >> > yes, but I value the uptime and ease of use of amazon much more. > I'm an S3 fan too, once set up it's just a matter of reading an emailed log of what last night's cron job did. To help speed the process of a restore to another site a sync back down can be performed now and then - doing that just now it took 10 minutes to get changed files since last week, could make it much quicker if it was run hourly.
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