Online backup recommendations for large Ubuntu dev server

[chris]

On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 19:30 -0400, J wrote:
> 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.
> 
<snip>
Given the recent earth quakes in Christchurch NZ, many firms are
learning this lesson to their cost.  The lack of off site backups has
destroyed  many businesses. 

-- 
Cheers the kiwi