At some point, I imagine most all backup will be done online because of
the obvious advantages.
Currently Amazon's S3 online backup service is one that I am aware of.
Below are S3's rates.
Can anyone recommend others?
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*United States
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*/Storage/
*$0.15 per GB-Month of storage used
*/Data Transfer/
*$0.10 per GB - all data transfer in
$0.18 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out
$0.16 per GB - next 40 TB / month data transfer out
$0.13 per GB - data transfer out / month over 50 TB
*/Requests/
*$0.01 per 1,000 PUT or LIST requests
$0.01 per 10,000 GET and all other requests*
* No charge for delete requests
Fred Holmes wrote:
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.
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