Re: backup strategies

Francisco Reyes wrote:
> Richard P. Welty writes:
>
>> actually, what it will come down to is the cost of an upgraded
>> connection vs $60/month
>> rent for 3Us of rack space to place a DLT autoloader in the
>> colocation facility.
>
> How much data are you looking to backup?
> There are companies that do rsync services.
> Just saw one last night for something like $20 for 30GB.
> It would go much faster than going to a DSL connection.
a couple of gig, not really all that much. the problem is that there is
an expectation of one or more persons/organizations going through
due diligence on the operation, and i'm not sure that a fuzzy
"somewhere online" file storage service will pass the smell test for
many of them, where as physical tape cartridges stored offsite will
likely make them happy.

richard