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Old 10-08-2004, 03:29 PM
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60 + Gigs is quite a bit a transfer. If you were looking at using a web-hosting service as a makeshift off-site storage facility I would think that hosting fees would be comparable if not more than the place that was recommended to you.

I would impletment a backup procedure that used either hot-swap drives or tapes in a rotation. I'm not sure how often you perform backups but lets say you do them nightly.

You could keep a weeks worth of backups on-site at work in a small fireproof safe... like the kind you can buy at staples. Then on a weekly rotation you would take the previous weeks backup home and put into a second fireproof safe.

Keep at a minimum of two weeks of backups and replace the tapes when they reach their expected end of life, or bad things can happen, and you will be sitting pretty

This would be much more affordable in the long run. Really, why do all that fancy internet based off-site storage anyway, all you really need is a way to recover lost data in the situation that your office burns down, or is swallowed into the earth.
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