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On 30 Sep 2007, at 12:33, Grant wrote: |
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> Where do you guys store your backups? Leaving backups on a DVD in the |
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> same apartment as the machines doesn't make too much sense to me. |
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> Maybe I should mail em to my parents every week or something? |
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> - Grant |
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Offsite backups are a good idea if your data is important to you. I |
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have several servers around the world so setting up rsync mirrors is |
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pretty painless. Then I burn to DVD remotely.. (I have trained people |
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enough so that when the tray opens they replace the DVD with a blank) |
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You might want to look at doing a stage 4 backup and then sending |
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that file to one of those online storage services. A quick google |
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shows there are many out there offering 2-25GB of free storage. There |
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are some non-free services designed specifically for backup where you |
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don't pay to upload but do pay when you want to get your data (which |
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given it is a backup I assume you would be highly motivated to pay if |
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a restore is required) A few months back I looked into Amazon's S3 to |
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automate offsite storage of backups. I never implemented anything |
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though. |
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I would encrypt anything sent to one of those online storage services. |
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Christopher |
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