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Originally posted by charlie6763
Anyone know of any off-site back-up options?
Regardlesss of the method - tape, scsi, ide, whatever, you're still pretty much fucked if your house/office burns down!
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this is true, and that's why it's good to not only backup, but have redundant backups.
as an example:
1. use a host that autobackups weekly (i.e. webair)
2. use raid mirroring
3. i use additional slave IDE HDs inside servers whose only purpose is additional (weekly) backup
4. portable HD usb2.0 HD's for "offsite" backup (once a month exchange drives with host by fedex---in this way if your host has a catastrophic failure or becomes insolvent at least you still can recover your websites)---a good cheap way to do this is buy the USB 2.0 external HD enclosure kits (lots of them on ebay for approx $30 each) and then buy big cheap IDE HD's (200gig) and install them into the enclosures.