Online backup recommendations for large Ubuntu dev server

[J]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 18:12, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:

> (including Ubutu One, I immagine).. My suggestion, however, is fire the
> CTO.. Why on earth would you want to outsource storage for that much data?
> The best you can hope to achieve is increase cost, increase potential
> exposure of sensitive data and decrease accountability (not a good thing
> other than some bizarre cover your ass by blaming someone else mentality.)

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.

In any case, there's no reason they couldn't just rent storage
somewhere and do encrypted backups to that storage space... hell, They
could even just rent a server with a ton of hard disks in it and do
nightly rsyncs, or use Amanda for free, or even Tar if they want to be
REALLY cheap about it.

I do somewhat agree with you on one point though, but for a different
reason.  If they're only saving 2TB of data, they could buy a 2TB USB
hard drive for less than $150 US and just carry the backup home.  of
course, that then creates the risk of leaving the backup drive in a
coffee shop or something...