[aklug] Re: Offsite data backup storage for small Alaska business?

Cloudberry is an awesome cross storage backup utility, and it is hard to
beat the security of Amazon S3, particularly if you encrypt on the client
side before shipping the data. If you know you won't need to retrieve it
anytime soon and can handle the slow retrieval time and potential restore
cost, glacier is an option as well.

The initial load will be painful, but then you are just looking at diffs
depending on how you backup. You might consider staggering the initial
load. Start with a selection of folders that won't kill your plan, when you
have a good baseline add some more folders when you plan resets, rinse and
repeat and you will have your 300gb and less pain.

This is the first backup utility that isn't rsync that I trust with my
clients (i.e. other people's) data.
On Dec 10, 2015 4:02 PM, "Christopher Howard" <christopher@alaskasi.com>
wrote:

> Hey all, another IT/business question for the lists: What do small
> businesses in Alaska usually do for offsite data backup storage? (We are in
> Fairbanks.) We've got about 300GB right now on a NAS RAID array. We don't
> have a tape system or anything fancy like that. In theory I could stream it
> out to any online backup service, but I calculate that'd burn about 10
> hours and a month's worth of data (on our plan). Guess I could just throw a
> portable drive in a safe box, but it seems like that'd be a lot of trouble
> even for weekly backups. The great thing would be if I could drive
> somewhere to do the initial download, then do diffs or something remotely.
> (Maybe get a storage account with UAF...? Or would it be madness to put
> commercial data on a university network?)
>
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> Christopher Howard, Computer Assistant
> Alaska Satellite Internet
> 3239 La Ree Way, Fairbanks, AK 99709
> 907-451-0088 or 888-396-5623 (toll free)
> fax: 888-260-3584
> mailto:christopher@alaskasi.com
> http://www.alaskasatelliteinternet.com
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