Re: 2 GB for free online backup

Removable hard drives two of them, best if encrypted, are a much better
solution IMO. Then you pretty much know who has your data and what they
can/can't do to/with it and it's usually more convenient to plug in the
drive and go. Probably faster too when you consider the time that amount of
data could take to transit, espeically when uploading.
You keep one backup on an internal drive, the rest of the externals and
rotate.

JMO

Pop


R. McCarty wrote:
Backup Solutions uses an encryption system and the data
is stored in one of Iron Mountain's facilities. I'd be more
concerned about a lost notebook than using this service for
Server data backup. This isn't a bare metal recovery type
of backup - just critical business data and Exchange Server.

Besides the fact that Quickbooks data is itself password
protected. The customer wanted something he could just
setup once and be done with it. Streaming tape on a SCSI
controller really didn't meet his needs.

It's handy because I can periodically Remote Desktop to the
server and check the backup logs.

"Gary Walker" <twf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Perhaps this is not an issue with you, or it's in some way
circumvented to your satisfaction, but I would never
send sensitive financial data offsite via an ip connection.

What am I missing here?


Gary



"R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Off site backups can be very handy for small business operations. I
have a customer who uses Backup Solutions. Just recently, we had
a QuickBooks data file issue. We pulled the latest backup from their
system and was back on line in a just a few minutes. Costs less than
$40 per month for 6 Gigabytes of storage.

"Larry Samuels" <larry@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Bruce,

On the contrary--there are quite a few reputable online backup
services and I recommend them to my business clients for offsite
storage. PS--any reputable company uses customer-controlled encryption
and
the files are encrypted before transfer. They couldn't read the
encrypted data on their servers if they wanted to.

PPS--none of the companies I would trust are free <G>

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"Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sukhoi47 wrote:
Hi all,

I am using Mozy and I recommend as a professional and free online
backup.

In these times of rampant identity theft, what kind of an idiot
would trust the personal data to an on-line "storage" service? That'd
just be begging for trouble.


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