On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 22:02 -0700, Derek Trotter wrote:
> Here's something that just occurred to me. I used to know a guy in
> Wickenburg who was responsible for the backups where he worked. He
> told me that once a week when he came to work, he would take the last
> set of backups to the bank where he put them in the firm's safe
> deposit box. He would bring the tapes that were in the box back to
> the office where they would be used for the next backup.
I've done that for years with a couple of drives. Mostly for photos.
The number of photos I have would take quite literally a week to upload
to any online service with the bandwidth I have. And I'd like to use
the bandwidth for other things! (Justin Bebier videos, of course)
Works well. Kinda manual, but it is a very cheap off-site backup
solution.
On the technical side what I do is that I back up individual machines to
a NAS at home. Then I "back up the back up" and take that drive to the
bank. I don't do it that often, but it puts a backstop on how much I'd
loose in extreme cases. For the most part the NAS handles all standard
recovery/failure cases.
Ted
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