[Cialug] suggestions on HDD based backup

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Tim Champion <timchampion at gmail.com> wrote:
> We are already planning to do a site-to-site data sync between Marshalltown
> & Ames, but that will be a live sync, and would not protect against
> accidental deletion. We've all heard the horror stories of places using
> mirroring or something like a live sync and then losing data anyway because
> they did not have a "real" backup. The piece I'm specifically looking at is
> the nightly backup so we have at least 2 weeks of history of our data.
> Explaining it now, it now seems like overkill to take the nightly backup off
> site since there will be a remote mirror of the data, but I'd rather be
> over-prepared than under-prepared.

I'll make a suggestion, but first, let me point out a problem w/ off
site backups, especially when you are taking them to a remote
location. To put it simply, it's a burden. It's a routine, monotonous
chore and humans are not as good at these types of tasks compared to
machines.

Since you have a site-to-site link, here's a possible suggestion. Let
each office have an extra, low-cost, high capacity storage unit for
backups. Then do a weekly or fort-nightly full-backup which gets
stored off-site and a daily incremental backup stored across the wire.

There's also "back blaze" which charges $5 a month for cloud storage
and unlimited data. Hard to beat that.

What ever you do, look for something that is as automatic as possible.

/me goes to double check his own backups now

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