Offsite Data Backup Services?

[Fayd]

Anyone had experience with any?

i'm looking at backing up up to 500 gigs, preferably nightly.

i've seen iron mountain's continuous backup service, but i dont know if that's really what we need. It also seems like it'd be a bit.. .expensive.

 

[Tarrant64]

Wish I could remember whether it was it was called "hot spot" or not, but at my company we're looking to change our disaster recovery plans to an offsite location that is pretty much a replication of our office now. All the servers will pretty much sync over night so if anything happens, the network switches over to the offsite one and no one would know the difference. Except us downstairs in the server room going 'wtf is this sh!t?'.

Basically I think there is a highspeed connection, pretty sure fiber, that is dedicated to our servers and keeps everything up to date. Hmm...when I get to work on Monday I'll ask more about this, as I came in to the job a couple months out of the loop, and have had other stuff on my desk to keep me out of the loop as well. But i've been told about it a few times though. I'm hoping to learn more about data backup and recovery by the end of this year.


Looking at the Iron Mountain website, it sounds very similar to what we're doing. The only drawback to all this though is the $$$. From what I've heard it will cost us an arm and a leg, but when we look at it vs. a "lose all" situation, it doesn't matter what the $$$ is.

 

[Argo]

Check out amazon S3 - it's fairly inexpensive, especially if you don't plan on accessing the data often. I believe it's something like 10 cents per GB per month.

 

[Fayd]

I checked out S3, and unless i'm mistaken, it's not exactly what i'm looking for.

basically, i'm looking for a nightly backup (data retention for document change tracking isnt necessary, we take care of that on site.)

the total size of the data needing backup will be approximately 200, to a maximum of 500 gigabytes.

 

[Fayd]

hmmm... ibackup.com has a 300 gig policy for relatively cheap... i may look into this.

when i actually figure out how much data needs storage.. it may actually be under 200 gigs.. so it may be cheaper than i had thought.

 

[nweaver]

don't do internet based backups of that size. Go spend the money on a good backup device (tape drive) and then just transfer tapes in/out according to your DRP. Make sure your offsite tapes are being stored correctly (i.e. temps, humidity, fireproof, etc)