HW: Alien Autopsy

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 30 Jul 2009, at 04:45 , Jonathan Jarrett wrote:
> 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 think that's what Paul was suggesting! :)

Cheers,
Carl

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