Scott,
Onsite I only go back 11 months. Offsite, I have not put a recycle
function in yet, so I guess it's limited only by disk space. I expect I
will be cutting it off at a year and maybe annual year end copies after
a year. Just have not added that function yet. Now that you mention it
though I will add that to my short list of things to do. :)
Thanks,
Aaron Hoyt
Vantage Plastics
Scott Litzau wrote:
Onsite I only go back 11 months. Offsite, I have not put a recycle
function in yet, so I guess it's limited only by disk space. I expect I
will be cutting it off at a year and maybe annual year end copies after
a year. Just have not added that function yet. Now that you mention it
though I will add that to my short list of things to do. :)
Thanks,
Aaron Hoyt
Vantage Plastics
Scott Litzau wrote:
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> Aaron how far back does your backups go to, 1 month, 1 year, more.
>
> Scott Litzau, MCP
> Olympus Flag & Banner
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>] On
> Behalf Of
> Aaron Hoyt
> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 12:40 PM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Vantage] Online Backup Services - Who uses them?
>
> Not specifically relating to paid services, but offsite backup in
> general...and me being generally cheap when it comes to outside
> services...
> If you don't mind teaching yourself a few tricks, you can do this with
> an $80 Linksys NSLU2 and a couple of USB harddrives to your own offsite
> backup (assuming you have a VPN of some kind in place). Our data is
> backed up to disk to a minimum of two locations (server and NSLU2)
> onsite and to a NSLU2 offsite. We are backing up around 40-50 GB and it
> runs a synchronization every evening for a few hours using my internet
> connection at home. I even have it set to keep archives on a daily and
> monthly schedule. I did have to learn a little bit of Linux scripting,
> but it has run without issue for more than a year now keeping an ongoing
> log of start and stop times and overwriting a daily log of exactly what
> had changed and got backed up. Ongoing operating cost is only what it
> cost to replace or upgrade USB harddrives as needed and a minimal amount
> of electricity No tapes, no human intervention needed...and did I
> mention no more tapes. Restore onsite is copying from one network share
> to another and offsite is the same only a bunch slower. It is nice to
> be able to restore a file that was accidentally changed last week to
> it's previous state and in a matter of a minute or two.
>
> brad.ebright wrote:
> >
> > We are in the middle of restructuring our backup plan. I was just
> > curious to see who uses the services that some companies offer allowing
> > you to copy your backup material to their servers? If so, which company
> > do you use? Do you find this useful? How much does it cost? Would you
> > recommend this?
> >
> > Looking forward to hearing your opinions.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brad
> >
> >
>
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