[geeks] Cheap/reliable backup?

[microcode at zoho.com]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 03:27:39PM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> Better-suited for on-going incremental backups, not all-at-once.
> 
> As for the 'provider going out of business' issue, that's why I paired a cloud
> solution with a near-field solution (local disk backup). If you backup locally
> AND on a cloud, you've got 3 copies of your data - the original, your local
> backup and the cloud backup - you have to lose all three to suffer data
> loss.

The way things have been going lately, the cloud seems the least reliable
even though technically it's the most reliable. 

> 
> > On Dec 2, 2013, at 2:48 PM, microcode at zoho.com wrote:
> >
> > I guess I could pipe a dd of an entire drive through gpg and ssh it to some
> > backup provider. I really didn't think of it but it may be the cheapest
> > thing until they go out of business and/or charge ransom to get your own
> > data. I'll have to think about that a little more. With my bandwidth it
> > would take a few days for one drive.
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