off-site backup plan

Lyle Tuttle L.tuttle at cox.net
Wed Oct 21 13:40:41 MST 2009


Have you looked at ShadowProtect?

http://www.storagecraft.com/

Not for Linux......

At 12:46 PM 10/21/2009, you wrote:
>Ah yes, you have pour Internet. For the last company I worked for 
>that had a decent set of local servers (a 1/2 $billion company 
>construction company) I did online backups and it took about ~90min 
>(sometimes more sometimes less) and ran twice a day. In truth, there 
>were a dozen of boxes pushing out data in a stepped pattern, so it 
>would take 60min even if nothing changed. However the router had it 
>on a low priority so it never affected traffic and the servers could 
>care less if it was running so it never effected performance even 
>with the massive encryption.
>For the latest company, most of our data was on hosted servers since 
>no more then a half dozen people would be in any one location at a 
>time. The bandwidth there was unbelievable so the only bottle neck 
>was the disk I/O.  Still is took some time to do each days backup 
>but, again, it never effected performance.
>
>On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Alex Dean 
><<mailto:alex at crackpot.org>alex at crackpot.org> wrote:
>
>On Oct 21, 2009, at 11:55 AM, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
>
>If you want an automated offsite backup plan get a cheep machine, 
>toss in some decent storage, and use rSync over the net.
>
>
>Earlier in this thread I explained why I didn't want to do backups 
>over the internet.  Thanks anyway.
>
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