Do you have your data backup off-site today?
Yes... why?
Just checkin' for slackers
I rely on the NSA to backup all my data.
Dear NSA,
Please email a copy of my check #55037 ASAP. I need it to balance the bank statement.
Thanks!
RC
Quote from: littleman on May 05, 2016, 11:48:59 PM
I rely on the NSA to backup all my data.
That's my standard line. But as it so happens... I have offsite backup for my VPS and just before I replied to RC's query I looked over and doublechecked that a disk image from my home computer from a week ago was, in fact, semi-safely stored (cabinet in my office which is locked when I'm not that there and people have to pass by secrity to get there).
And I also bought one of those disk drives at Costco that is guaranteed to survive 1500 degrees F for 30 minutes and my files automatically back up to that every hour. But it's not off site.
Now the question is, are all your disks encrypted? That's where I'm slacking. I worry more about fire than theft... but I probably should worry about both. Or neither.
>I worry more about fire
Same here. I keep a backup of all the quickbooks bookkeeping on a couple of alternating lacie keys. Pulling a copy to put off-site was what made me think of the pop quiz.
We've got really slack on backups. I'm not too bothered though. I did a quick "back of fag packet" check a few weeks ago and anything important for us is now in the cloud anyway. It would be inconvenient to lose everything local,but it wouldn't kill us.
Next worry then : Who's protected against their cloud provider vanishing overnight?
Key stuff is offsite. i.e. websites are backed up to other servers once a day.
MY own PC and shop stuff? Its all backed up on site. If the house goes up, I have plenty of stuff to worry about. A few bits and pieces of data would be a minor problem.