On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 22:02 -0700, Derek Trotter wrote:

Here's something that just occurred to me. I used to know a guy in Wickenburg who was responsible for the backups where he worked. He told me that once a week when he came to work, he would take the last set of backups to the bank where he put them in the firm's safe deposit box. He would bring the tapes that were in the box back to the office where they would be used for the next backup.

I've done that for years with a couple of drives. Mostly for photos. The number of photos I have would take quite literally a week to upload to any online service with the bandwidth I have. And I'd like to use the bandwidth for other things! (Justin Bebier videos, of course) Works well. Kinda manual, but it is a very cheap off-site backup solution.

On the technical side what I do is that I back up individual machines to a NAS at home. Then I "back up the back up" and take that drive to the bank. I don't do it that often, but it puts a backstop on how much I'd loose in extreme cases. For the most part the NAS handles all standard recovery/failure cases.

Ted