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Mozy Sad but true story: I worked for a company that backed up email by printing them. They finally upgraded after a year of pleading...to a hard drive in a s
by byoung2 17y ago
Mozy
Sad but true story: I worked for a company that backed up email by printing them. They finally upgraded after a year of pleading...to a hard drive in a safe-deposit box at a bank down the street. And this was 2008!
- I_got_fifty 17y agoI'm sorry.
- edw519 17y agoSadder but true story: I worked for a company that backed up mission critical data to tape and stored the tape in the computer room! The building burnt down. No more system. No more business. And this was 2009!
- cperciva 17y agoI worked for a company that backed up mission critical data to tape and stored the tape in the computer room! The building burnt down. Another thing to remember, which several companies learned in 2001: "The other twin tower" doesn't qualify as an off-site backup.
- rarrrrrr 17y agoWe (SpiderOak) had a customer who previously arranged their backups with rotating tarballs, encrypted and daily moved offsite. Trouble was, the crypto keys were only archived _within_ the backup. Backup is a nuanced problem. There's a good case for outsourcing it to a 3rd party who has the motivation to do constant QA.
- Kadin 17y ago> to a hard drive in a safe-deposit box at a bank down the street What's the problem with that? It's probably better than 95% of small businesses out there. No, it doesn't offer geographic redundancy and it might not withstand a killer tidal wave or nuclear strike, but for many businesses that's a moot point: such a situation would destroy their business outright anyway, to the point where their computers would be the least concern. If they swapped out the HD in the box frequently (on a daily basis) it's not the worst idea I've ever seen.
- byoung2 17y agoThe company was in Malibu, a place known for fires and floods. Any disaster that would destroy the office would make the bank inaccessible. And the backups were done weekly because it wasn't convenient to drive to the bank in rush hour traffic. The biggest flaw in the plan: the one guy with the key was fired!