| raymor |
03-27-2012 06:37 AM |
That's exactly what Clonebox is designed for. You pay only for the storage, but you can boot the clone copy of your server when you need it.
A couple of key attributes make it much better to use a service designed for that purpose. First, one copy normally does you no good. Let's assume you did it DIY and set it to sync at 2AM. At 1AM, a hacker gets in and injects malicious code into all of your PHP. You would wake up to find that you have two copies of garbage because an hour after it was hacked the hacked files were synced to you DIY "backup". Clonebox will project you because we keep four images of your server. You'd just use the image from the day before, the copy before you were hacked. That's a professionally developed system.
Another element of a professionally developed system versus DIY is that most webmasters only think to back up their web files. What about the databases that power your site? It's easy to forget those. We've also seen people who thought they had backups lose thousands of emails because they used IMAP but forgot to include the emails in their backup. Clonebox makes an image if the ENTIRE hard drive, so everything is protected. Again, truly professionally designed enterprise systems vs. DIY.
The other day we were called in to help with a restore. The web host had been doing the backups. They pointed us to the backup server and when we logged in we saw there were regular backups - until twenty months ago. Something had gone wrong and with noone actively monitoring and testing the backups they didn't know it had been failing for nearly two years. With Clonebox, reports of any problems are emailed to us and we also do monthly testing, personally watching the files sync.
Do you want a system developed over a decade by an experienced professional and proven effective with many, many servers, tested in actual real life recovery instances, or would you prefer to try something on your own and hope that it works right when you need it most?
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