Let's not get carried away with calling this proposal 'cloud backup'. IMHO you're offering offsite backup.
For something to be "cloud" you should look at NIST (or similar definitions), which include elements like "rapid elasticity", "user self-service", "broad network access" and "measured service": http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-145/SP800-145.pdf Cheers Ken From: David Lum [mailto:david....@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2013 5:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup to cloud? Yes, DR. Their Internet connection download is 10MBps, the size of their backups is 400+GB total, the smallest being Exchange DB @ 50GB, and if I am restoring their SBS VM it's 350GB plus another 200GB for their SQL VM. If could get the liability sorted, it would be far easier to have it backup to my shop, and recovery would be a matter of me bringing in the drive with the backups. I have unlimited space at my web host so I could back up to that but still the download from there --> my lab (25MBps) is 10+ hours. I have their local backups going to two places onsite (a RAID1 USB 3.0 drive + their other non-hyper-V capable server), my concern is building-wide DR need, kind of goes along with my "spare server" conversation a couple weeks ago. Very unlikely yes, but I still feel the "not covered from that angle" twinge. From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup to cloud? 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<mailto: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
