Where do you store your off-site backups? A bare (not in a case) 3.5" hard drive will fit in a "small" bank safe deposit box, and is conveniently used with one of the many available "bare" interfaces (no case, just the electronics for data and power), e.g., USB to IDE/EIDE (or SATA). Only the drive is stored. The interface is kept on site and used continually.
The nice thing about using a hard drive as backup media is that incremental backups are consolidated (by copying new/newer files) into a directory tree that is current and complete. Copying can be with or without "replicating deletions" so that old stuff can be preserved in the backup. The backup can be readily tested, since the files appear on an ordinary hard drive. And it is quick to find and restore a single file or two. Fred Holmes At 07:19 AM 12/12/2007, Jeff Wright wrote: >I use Mozy at home, of which I haven't had the chance to test the recovery >feature yet, and Iron Mountain at work for taking tapes offsite. The Mozy >backup is very simple to do. It's a very polished service. > >I'm considering moving away from tape backups to disk-based with off-site, >online vaulting, but I have yet to see the price tag. Needless to say, I >expect it to be many, many times that of tape, which could kill the idea. > >> -----Original Message----- >> Do you have an off site back up? If you have any critical data on >> these machines you should rotate backups to a secure location away >> from the machines in case of flood, fire etc. So that might mean >> another set of backups or burning an occasional DVD of the most >> critical stuff and storing it somewhere off site or using a remote >> backup service. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
