[geeks] Cheap/reliable backup?

[Shannon]

On 2 Dec 2013, at 14:00 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> I think the 'best' solution for most use cases would've a mix of local disk
> redundancy and a cloud backup service, be it a public provider (like
> carbonite.com) or a private/roll-your-own solution (like an Amazon S3-based
> storage system).
>
> If you want a 'put a backup on an off-line shelf' solution, I kinda like
the
> idea of writing 20-25 Gig on a writeable Blu-Ray disc... (I have no idea
how
> long such discs are readable/archive life).
>
> At $work we back up to a large JBOD with quarterly tapes in a bank vault
from
> a tape carousel. (Public K-12 school district)
>
> For local backups, USB 2.0 is typically fast enough, USB 3.0 may be needed
for
> larger/more demanding needs.
>
> I have friends in the Windows small business server market and they
typically
> use a handful of removable USB drives as if they were tape backups (daily
> incrementals, a weekly back up, and an archived monthly/quarterly backup
kept
> off-site).

The one issue I have with using hard drives as media, is they are much harder
to destroy than something like tape.

I'm still looking for an easy way to destroy what I have. Some of them can be
read... if I had a machine that could.

Physical destruction of some of them is really difficult.


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