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Originally Posted by beaner
Like Selena, I wouldn't do the local backups though 
But one thing I have learned is you do not want to get your IP address marked as spam on your money sites. Setting up another server for backups AND emails is worth the X% of profits for me.
I tried a backup in a completely different location and it became a problem because I was not willing to provide root access for the backups. So now I just have 2 boxes in 1 building.
Do you have a recommendation for an economical solution in addition to 2 boxes, at another location? Besides downloading the information to my personal harddrives. That way the entire building where my servers are could catch fire and still never lose anything ;) |
I thought I answered this before. I must have been typing the answer on my phone to this and forgot to send.
I sell both Barracuda Backup & Sonicwall CDN. Barracuda is a lot more user friendly and cheaper per GB off-site. You pay for an appliance that you put with your servers. It comes with different agents for things such as SQL, Exchange, VMware, Oracle etc for granular backups. You setup the agents on the servers. It sends the backups to the local appliance for easy restore. It then sends to 2 cloud locations for double redundancy. So if you need to get something off fast, you can get it from the appliance. If you have a complete disaster in your rack, data room, data center etc. You can bring the the data back from the cloud. If you pay for replacement support they will send you a brand new box with all your data already loaded on it overnight. They also give you the option to load your servers into virtual machines in there datacenter while your servers are down.
https://www.barracudanetworks.com/pr.../backupservice
You can also go to a backend demo of the product here..
http://demo.barracuda.com
I think the lowest model is about 500 bucks, the highest about 40,000k if i am not mistaken. Its about .25 per gig per month for offsite space. Or you can just get 2 of them, if you have 2 locations, or put them in 2 datacenters and sync them up so you dont have to pay for off-site space monthly.