You could get a metered T1 and store it that way. But, for the cost of that and having the data stored somewhere "off site", why not just buy some more USB backups or NAS devices and take them home each night?
John -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Jarvis Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 1:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NF] Backups Backups Backups We've implemented a scheme where we write a weekly full backup to a USB drive, then each day thereafter is the differential. To restore, we use the full then the latest diff file... AND WE TESTED THE BACKUPS!! BUT there's a catch... we had a break in one time and they took an LCD monitor and a petty cash box... it then occured to me that IF they had taken the servers AND the USB drive sitting next to them, I would have been really, really screwed... there goes all my data... Since then I rotate the USB's once a week, but if this whole place burned to the ground I still have a problem... What I've been wanting to do is upload the daily diffs offsite, but we just can't get enough bandwidth to push that much data over the wire, even if we give ourselves all day to do it... we're talking about 4G of data on a daily basis... We're w/ Comcast and our upload is limited to 768k... What alternatives are out there that would let me push this much data around? Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs." www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Weller wrote: > I actually worked out for a client that it was cheaper to use laptop size > HDD in a caddy then the equivalent no of tapes. The big saving was no > expensive tape drive and backup software. They are easier to restore from > and to check, quicker to find a single file and much, much easier for a > layman to use and check. As for reliability - well, modern HDD are much > more reliable than tape! I'll never use tape again. (I seem to remember a > thread on this a while back). > > John Weller > 01380 723235 > 07976 393631 > > >>Tapes might not be great but they're the only reliable backup media >>available today. >>Backing up to a couple of USB harddrives is not a decent backup >>solution (unless you use about 25 of them per year!). >> >> >> > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
