For the record, this falls into the small/important category :-) We use an external usb drive for full backups, and store it in our firesafe. We haven't taken the time to network said drive... any ideas on that?
Oh yeah: we = my wife and I I married a web developer! On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 14:32 -0500, Rob Sherwood wrote: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:54:42PM -0500, Nick Cummings wrote: > > I don't know how it compares to other backup solutions, but it definitely > > seems pricy to me. $1.6 per GB per month with some quantity discounts. > > If I wanted to back up the ~50 GB of data on my home computer, that'd come > > to (with the discount) $64/mo. > > > > If you only want to backup a small amount of really important data, then > > it probably makes sense. But if you want to back up things like > > multimedia, it seems pretty steep. > > Agreed -- too expensive. A SATA 500GB disk is selling for ~$140 now, > which is $.28/GB . You could buy a couple of 500GB disks each month, > copy your data over yourself, and just never use them again. Think of > it like tape backup :-) > > - Rob > .
