Backing up data offsite

Jeff Hyman · Post by **Jeff Hyman** » 10 Dec 2009 9:47 pm

What is a good offsite backup company for a windows OS? What is the expected price per GB for offsite storage. I know companies like Carbonite offer 2Gb for free... but what if you have (ie) 25Gb to backup over the pipe every night? I am looking to some of you Windows guys here to give me an idea of whats going on in the market. Feedback is greatly appreciated.

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 11 Dec 2009 12:56 am

Acronis has a deal right now for True Image Home 2010 users to lease space for backups. I'll get back to you with the details. The charge for the first 25 gigs is $4.95 per month, then it looks like another 79 cents a month for each additional 5 gigs.

You can go through my Acronis page to get the fine details on the Acronis website, for True Image 2010.

Note, that "ATI Home" only supports Windows computers. Other versions exist for Linux servers and workstations. I can get you the details about these products on request.

Let me know what you need link-wise, or detail-wise.

Jeff Agnew · Post by **Jeff Agnew** » 11 Dec 2009 5:00 am

It sounds like you're talking about online or remote data backups, not off-site backups. The latter are used for physically transferring stored data from your location to a secured, fireproof, temp-controlled environment. Really, this is more for disaster recovery. But depending on your needs and working habits, it still might be the better and cheaper solution. I'm not sure from your description what your real objective is, other than simoky backing up files. Do you need to restore individual files often? Or need frequent access? Do others need access to this data or only you?

We use Iron Mountain for both off-site storage and for online backups. This is true enterprise-level backup and may be overkill for what you want but if this is for business data I wouldn't put my money or faith in a consumer-level solution.

Here are the details about Iron Mountain's PC client.

Jeff Hyman · Post by **Jeff Hyman** » 11 Dec 2009 8:07 am

Jeff / Wiz,

Objective is to back up over the pipe, to a co-location. The local data will be mainly Linux, with Windows in the mix. A big piece is having the ability to recover from a crash...where the data is 4 states away, and the crashed server is local. In the event of a crash, need to rebuild the HD automatically (menu driven) while connect over the pipe and restore the remotely stored data to the local server. All partitions are created automatically as part of the requirement. I am aware there are services out there that do some or all of this. I need some feedback from you wizards as to what your thoughts are, and what features should be addressed... as well as pricing schemes.

TIA

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 11 Dec 2009 8:42 am

Have you considered using Cron to run scheduled Rsync backup jobs to a leased remote server?