[X4U] Off site data storage - Options?

[Greg Chapel]

Oops!

Sorry, I responded to the wrong thread. This was meant to go into  
Leopard features. I am sure there are many ways that your situation  
could be addressed but I have never used an offsite service other  
than my own office server and Apple's .mac.

On Aug 9, 2006, at 11:40 PM, Robert Ameeti wrote:

> At 11:02 PM -0600, 8/9/06, Greg Chapel wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> . Neat, but not much different than you could perform yourself  
>> with good backup software, a big external drive, and a few scripts.
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> An external drive does not satisfy the requirement for off site  
> storage for disaster recovery. The clients do not want to be  
> responsible for moving multiple external disk off site with  
> connection issues.
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> And Time Machine does not exist today.
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>> On Aug 9, 2006, at 10:13 PM, Robert Ameeti wrote:
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>>> 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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