Mike, If you use S3, you can specify which zone to use. BTW, I think Amazon has a new local zone in Israel, but I think the requirement Arie put was outside of Israel. We backup our servers to Amazon S3 and wrong the protocols ourselves, so it is possible.
ITschak *| **Itschak Mugzach | Director | SecuriTeam Software **|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for Z/OS, zLinux and IBM I **| * *|* *Email**: i_mugz...@securiteam.co.il **|* *Mob**: +972 522 986404 **|* *Skype**: ItschakMugzach **|* *Web**: www.Securiteam.co.il **|* On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 7:34 PM Mike Schwab <mike.a.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Most clouds store data in the nearest facility for reduced read write > time. Some clouds replicate to other sites. Have been outages when a > cloud site went down and the data was not available. > > 2022 Google outage when a fire occured. > > https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/google-alphabet/data-center-fire-google-suffers-electrical-incident-3-injured > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 10:45 AM Jon Perryman <jperr...@pacbell.net> > wrote: > > > > On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 10:08:20 +0300, Arye Shemer <aryeshe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > one of the most important reason is the > > >time frame that should be immediately (preferably tomorrow :-) ). > > > > One very important detail I did not mention is the location of your data > in the cloud. You may connect to a cloud location thinking that is where it > will be stored. In order to be more efficient, some clouds may redirect > your request to a closer location. Potentially the country of the > requester. Why send the data halfway across the world when their cloud has > a location closer to the point of origin. > > > > My assumption was that this was an ASAP request which is why I suggested > FTP. Someone could manually FTP the backups starting today and a REXX exec > quickly written to automate the process. Writing a cloud enabled program > takes longer which could be considered later when there isn't a time > constraint. > > > > Another possibility you may not have considered is using one of your > satellite offices located in a different country using a PC with USB > drives. Transfer the backups to the USB drive and take the drive to a safe > deposit box or a company similar to the one you currently use. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > -- > Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA > Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
