Just my 2 cents. Who says that the cloud is 100% reliable? Can be
hacked, get bankrupt or change price/policy. Until now not heard of the
first 2 but the 3rd has happened.
My 'solution'. Just buy 2 cheap external discs. Backup to both disks and
bring one to a friend/relative (not your neighbour because if your place
burns, the neighbours place will likely burn too). Next backups backup
to the disc at your place and exchange it with the other one and backup
again on this disc. Some work with minimal cost. So you have 3 different
media and 2 different geographical locations.
Regards,
Marco
Op 6/12/2022 om 00:48 schreef Chris Albertson:
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
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