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Backing up to America

  • 05-03-2009 01:45AM
    #1
    namit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 51 ✭✭


    Just wondering if anyone here knows the implications of backing up to America! found a really cheap system for between $50-$150 a year per computer for unlimited backups. Its a nice setup and works well but not sure if its the proper way of doing it.


Comments

  • #2
    JDxtra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭JDxtra


    Can you expand your requirements? Is it a small office? How many PCs? Any servers? Importance of the data?


  • #3
    namit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 51 ✭✭namit


    All small medium business with average out at 1 sever and 8 computers. Data would be mainly emails, documents, excel files.


  • #4
    NullZer0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,629 ✭✭✭NullZer0


    Acronis + Rsync

    Acronis is only something like 400usd and rsync is free.
    Just back it up to a remote site incrementally after moving an initial backup over.

    When it comes to something like this, you get what you pay for.


  • #5
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,053 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    how long would it take to get all the data back, hours , days ?

    can you recover the data in 7 years time ?

    what happens if the US company goes bankrupt or gets hacked or the client stops paying ?
    if the data is really confidential , medical records and stuff then our data protection laws are different to theirs.


  • #6
    namit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 51 ✭✭namit


    how long would it take to get all the data back, hours , days ?
    Depends on how much you have, easy to restore files and some of them have option where they will ship you hard disk.

    can you recover the data in 7 years time ?
    Yes suppose so i used idrive around a year ago and loged in there last week and my files where still there.

    what happens if the US company goes bankrupt or gets hacked or the client stops paying ?
    Sure thats same problem if its Irish company.

    if the data is really confidential , medical records and stuff then our data protection laws are different to theirs.
    Yes this was my main problem with it, but its a 12th of the price of any irish company so i am weighing up cost with that, and i do not have anything to hide.


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  • #7
    ifah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 569 ✭✭✭ifah


    Do you have permission to send client PI/sensitive data out of Ireland ?


  • #8
    johnmd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55 ✭✭johnmd


    I see this all over the place,and I sell this stuff for a living.Cheap is not the best,a local in Country provider should be able to give you the data back from their local data center in a few hours/NBD depending on the size of a potential restore.which is what you need when you have a client that needs to get back in action quickly.
    Also a local on site disk to disk solution is also advisable,ideally a bare metal image based product.Acronis/Symantec/R1soft etc with retention.
    Backing up email ie exchange stores will also be dependant on the size of the store/retention period/bandwidth available.
    Even using a combination of differential and incrementals to minimise the upload nightly.

    Do a search for problems with "whatever provider you are looking at choosing" and look at the volume of customer issues with these type of cheap setups.


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