Online backup recommendations for large Ubuntu dev server

Fajar Priyanto fajarpri at arinet.org
Mon Apr 11 04:17:49 UTC 2011


On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 7:30 AM, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> Because off-site backups are smart.  There's always a risk of data,
> but unless his company owns multiple data centers where they can send
> backups to for redundancy, off-site backups make sense.  I used to
> work for an ISP and we stored about 2TB of data (2TB is not that much
> data, really) of customer e-mail and websites.  The company's backup
> strategy was a tape robot in the DC, which was located in the
> company's only office.  And the off-site option?  The CTO took tapes
> home with her once a week... where they could be lost, damaged,
> stolen, who knows what...
>
> So what happens if the building burns?  Floods?  Airplane crashes into
> it?  No off-site backup of your data?  Hope your servers are
> water/fire/airplane proof.

Yes, nowadays offsite backup is a must.
I believe in the US usually they use a company called Iron Mountain.
In Europe, you can approach ... forgot the name... they provide
Nuclear proof bunker in Swiss for it.




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