[X4U] Off site data storage - Options?

[Greg Chapel]

External Hard Drive space shouldn't be a problem these days. You can  
buy a 500GB External USB Drive for roughly $250.00.

Time Machine shouldn't require THAT much space. Remember it only  
makes one complete backup of your system and then every night at  
midnight it only  makes an incremental backup, saving the only the  
files that changed on that day. Even the complete backup may not need  
to backup everything as it would probably just need to know the  
differences between your current config and the standard original  
install config.

When you read the description of Time Machine on Apple's site you  
begin to realize that Time Machine isn't a filesystem level radical  
change. It is just backup software with an automated backup  
procedure, and a new interface for restoring data. Neat, but not much  
different than you could perform yourself with good backup software,  
a big external drive, and a few scripts.On Aug 9, 2006, at 10:13 PM,  
Robert Ameeti wrote:

> I have multiple clients that if in a normal IT situation, would  
> find themselves doing tape backups and then taking the tapes off  
> site for disaster preparedness. These clients though would like to  
> be lazy and just back up to some off site destination via a  
> scheduled back up routine using their unused broadband during the  
> night. I'm talking about backing up maybe 100 to 200 GB of data  
> which could be handled via incremental after a full backup over a  
> weekend. Sensible?
>
> What companies might offer this service?
>
> What equipment and software would be appropriate for me to offer  
> the service as a destination for my clients?
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