HW: Alien Autopsy

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Paul Mather wrote:

> One possibility to consider is to use an online backup such as Mozy or Amazon 
> S3 as your backup drive.  (Be sure to read the SLA very carefully!)  That 
> way, you can offline your storage and disaster recovery headaches to someone 
> else.  (The downside is that it is more expensive than a DIY consumer 
> solution, but who said enterprise-level solutions necessarily came cheap?:)

 	I have to say that I would never want to trust my backup to an 
outside agency. Online services go bankrupt sometimes, and then no SLA 
will bring your stuff back. Or, more simply, they can just have network 
outages. By all means use this for an offsite restore-in-case-of-disaster 
level copy but I don't think you want to use it in preference to a home 
solution.

 	I am now uncomfortably aware that I don't really have much of my 
stuff backed up anywhere *other* than online, though that online is at 
least my landlord's machine. Hmm. And yesterday I fixed one of my 
CD-writers, too. Clearly serendipity is at work. Yours,
 							Jonathan

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