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That’s on-site way too often for my tastes. If your house burns down while your car is in the garage, there’s a good chance you’ll lose the backup too. Adding a
by mikeash 8y ago
That’s on-site way too often for my tastes. If your house burns down while your car is in the garage, there’s a good chance you’ll lose the backup too. Adding a computer in your office fixes that, but why not just send your backups to it over the internet instead of using this ad-box vehicular transport protocol?
- tiernano 8y agoNever underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes travelling down the highway...
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoInitial seeding of your offsite backup over the Internet would be a pain, but most people's valuable data change rate isn't high enough to significantly tax modern broadband connections. I sync a few gigs of data a week and I never even notice it happen.