On 15 Apr 2010 at 12:37, John Aldrich wrote: > The main concern I have for cloud-based backup is the ongoing cost. I mean, > yeah, the initial cost of a tape drive/library is pretty high but a > cloud-based backup service is somewhat like blackmail -- you pay and you pay > and you pay. :-)
Agree. Most companies have multiple physical sites, and those which are small enough not to have owners with broadband Internet at home. Seems to me your offsite backup site ought to be configured as a backup mirror at another company site or the owner's home. No per-month storage costs, no per-gigabyte transfer fees, just the cost of setting up the box and the pipeline costs. > Either way, though you'll have to pay. I guess even if you go with tape, > you'll have to replace tapes as they wear out and eventually you'll need the > next generation of tape drives that hold more > data, etc.... Unless you just backup to removable disks, which make expensive archive media but don't wear the way tapes do. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
