On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 4:03 PM David Vincent-Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> OK, ... understood. But I an just a photographer and not responsible to > shareholders. > Not "shareholders" but "shareholder". You would be rightfully mad at yourself if all your data and the backups were destroyed when lightning struck a utility pole down the street from your house. Or maybe you had a fire that took out both the data and the backup or someone stole all the equipment. The number of investors, wetter it is 1,000 or one does not change much. > > On 12/5/22 15:48, Chris Albertson wrote: > > > > On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 2:59 PM David Vincent-Jones <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> Yes, the cloud ...... just another cost that we are being talked into! >> > OK, you don't want to pay to use other peole's storage. Then buy a second > NAS and place it in some other building and use that. You can work out if > it is cheaper to rent or buy storage. Likely it does cost less in the > long run to buy your own off-site storage but it will require some time for > you to devote to keeping it running. What is your time worth? We assume > this is a business and not a hobby. > > The company I used to work for used three large storage systems each one > in a different city and they kept them all in sync. But they already had > IT staff and the server rooms in place. > > Synology does make backing up to a remote NAS really easy to setup. The > only problem is the up-front cost is at least doubled because you need a > second NAS box. So you have to decide if you would rather pay $1,200 for > the hardware of $30 per month for a service. > > The usual rule of thumb about backing up business critical data is that is > all cases > 1) the data is one three different media and > 2) the data is at two different geographical locations. > > Usually this means the Data is on your computer, your backup disk or NAS, > and in a cloud server. That is three different media. > and your office and the cloud provide two different geographic locations. > > The above is the minimum. Your share holders would consider you > incompetent and sue you if you did less, you can always do more. > > > -- > > Chris Albertson > Redondo Beach, California > > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
