Online storage is just part of the overall backup solution. I of course have my own personal backups at home with redundant HDs. But that's of no use against things like floods or house fires. So the really critical data is backed up to a third-party "offsite" location where I may not be able to access it 24/7/365 but it will still be there barring the end of the world or a major bankruptcy.
Either of which might actually be possible after the last week on Wall Street :) ------ Brian On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 3:30 PM, DHSinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you Brian, > It now seems that we do/approve of online "storage." > I will search and investigate this. I do know that many of this Lists' > members > have learned/done this. I salute this! You folks may be the true pioneers > in this > high-speed data stream. > Off-LAN storage is not a critical topic ATM. I do get the "future plans" > idea. > I can admit that speeds/abilities/capabilities have gotten the best of me. > OK. > I have decided that I have ONE bad drive in the RAID. I still believe that > my Adaptec ?3200S is still fully operational. But, I have other back-channel > conversation working on this one!!!! > Yes Greg, I do NOT completely comprehend a RAID. Thought I did. > But, ATM, I do not. > Thank you, Brian. > Duncan > > At 14:53 09/29/2008 -0400, you wrote: > >> I use JungleDisk and Amazon S3 for my personal offsite backup. I know >> it's >> not completely bulletproof, but for a couple bucks a month it's well worth >> it for the 10 GB of data I really, really care about. >> >> >> ------ >> Brian >> >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:50 PM, maccrawj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > 1TB Seagate 7200.11 SATA-300 drive $130 >> > USB2/eSATA Icydock MB559US-1SMB enclosure $45 after MIR >> > Peace of mind knowing key data is backed up offline, priceless! >> > >> > =) >> > >> > >> > DHSinclair wrote: >> > >> >> Thank you Greg. Kind of terse, but I do fully comprehend your points. >> So >> >> far, my data loss will be any/all digital pixs I took post 03/07 and >> some >> >> archived dot-pdf files that support my home care equipment. Suspect >> that I >> >> can probably find most of this again. >> >> >> >> I never attempted to use the RAID of the server as a substitute for >> proper >> >> backup policy. It just turned out the my server did have the largest >> >> available free space (23GB). OK, shame on me. I do try to "backup" to >> >> available space wherever available on my LAN clients until I can get a >> NAS >> >> operational. >> >> >> > <snip> >> > >> > >
