One critical part to keep in mind is also the build time for the restores. Even though the DVDs or external hard drive will be shipped overnight, doesn't mean the files will be ready any time soon. A little over a year ago I did a restore for a client who had a failed server, and their onsite backups were no good (I was not involved with those at all). The restore was about 200GB and it took about 6 days before the backups were ready and shipped out. The failure occurred on a Thursday and they were not back up and working until the following Friday, so they had 8 days of downtime.
Thanks, Sean Houston Systems Administrator On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Sam Cayze <sca...@gmail.com> wrote: > Amazon has some super high speed pipes linked to various centers for > situations like this. (Called Direct Connect?). Not too familiar with it. > **** > > I think connections as fast as 10Gbps. You could design your DR strategy > around a data center supporting this.**** > > ** ** > > Mozy also supports shipping DVDs/Drives.**** > > ** ** > > There are also some solutions that allow you to ‘spin-up’ your backups at > the cloud location on a VM. (Check out Unitrends. Veem?). Then, you > don’t have to download the backups.**** > > ** ** > > I put all my ‘cloud’ backups into the same remote data center I would > restore to in a disaster. And some of that even gets backed up to the > ‘real’ cloud (Amazon S3).**** > > ** ** > > *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 13, 2013 11:36 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Backup to cloud?**** > > ** ** > > I have 498GB of data stored in the cloud that would take about six weeks > to download. The "send me it on a USB drive" option that Ben mentioned is > my DR choice :-)**** > > ** ** > > On 13 February 2013 17:27, Rod Trent <rodtr...@myitforum.com> wrote:**** > > Why would retrieval take that long? Are you talking more about disaster > recovery?**** > > **** > > **** > > *From:* David Lum [mailto:david....@nwea.org] > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:21 PM**** > > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Backup to cloud?**** > > **** > > Does backup to cloud even matter if the time to retrieve it spans 20+ > hours? If I were to consider hosting a clients’ backups at my location, > where do I go to find what liabilities I need to worry about. > Coincidentally the client in mind is a law firm of all places… **** > > *David Lum* > Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM > Office 503.548.5229 //* *Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764**** > > **** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin**** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin**** > > > > > -- > *James Rankin* > Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) > http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk**** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin**** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
