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Where I worked, weekly point in time backups were required. Those backups were put onto tape drives, those tape drives were set on a pallet and then driven by t
by site-packages1 6y ago
Where I worked, weekly point in time backups were required. Those backups were put onto tape drives, those tape drives were set on a pallet and then driven by truck to an offline second location. IMO _that’s_ how it’s done properly.
- zhengyi13 6y agoWhen we used Iron Mountain at my last job, there were two interesting additional concerns: 1) That nobody in our company actually knew where they were physically stored (insider risk?), but 2) That we had assurance that the physical storage was far enough away that a physical disaster in our area wouldn't also touch where the offline storage was located. There's a concomitant jump in RTO if that's what you do this, but hopefully that's well understood among the stakeholders.
- site-packages1 6y agoDefinitely a commitment jump, and not always necessary. We ran our own data centers, off the topic of backups, and it was wild to me that they were so disaster proof. There were different power lines from different power companies coming in in case either of the power companies had an outage, and some giant diesel power generator that could last a long time while fully powering the data center.