Off-site backup service/software?

[Fat Tone]

Any recommendations for either an off-site data backup service or suitable software so I could do it myself for a client?

Total data is 32GB, incrementing by ~10MB/week.

Many TAs

T.

[Gurm]

It's pretty cost-ineffective. After a short time of doing off-site backups, you would have spent enough to have just bought an LTO drive instead.

[Fat Tone]

You are missing the point. Off-site backups ensure that the business can continue should you lose the equipment, for whatever reason.

[TransformX]

I guess you could try them: http://www.xosoft.com/

[Taz]

You are missing the point. Off-site backups ensure that the business can continue should you lose the equipment, for whatever reason.

Doesn't taking the tape home every night achieve the same thing

Presonally I wouldn't trust my data to another company who could go bust or worse be hacked

[Gurm]

Doesn't taking the tape home every night achieve the same thing

Presonally I wouldn't trust my data to another company who could go bust or worse be hacked

BINGO! Most cost effective solution? MIS employee takes home the tapes. It's what 99% of companies do.

[spadnos]

Well - you could sign up for a cheap web hosting service, and use rsync or the like to transfer files.

I have DreamHost (sign up with me as the referrer, and I get reward money http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?80098 ) - their level 3 plan (Code Monster) is $20/month, and you get 60 GB storage and 1.6TB transfer per month. Those limits also increase weekly (by 480M and 16G/mo, respectively), so you won't run out of space. There's a discount if you prepay - no setup fee and 20% off.

The nice thing is that you can also set up multiple domains, so the same fee that gets you network backup also provides web hosting

I've been happy with them so far (been there about the last 18 months).

- Steve

[cjolley]

We use a vault in our parking garage across the street.
How about a safety deposit box at the bank for your tapes?

[Dr Mordrid]

A gig or so of webspace then set a folder on it as an FTP network drive. Then the backup s/w can use it like any other drive, saving the backups there.