Hard drive recovery

[cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org]

> On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Robert Brockway wrote:
> > - A backup that isn't off site isn't a backup at all.
> 
> No, both on-site and off-site backups are useful, as hedges against
> different classes of problems.

Indeed.  On-site backups can typically be applied _much_ more quickly
than off-site backups.

I'd buy that you have not got a robust _set_ of backups if there isn't
something useful off site.  But a really useful approach to doing
backups is to copy data to a local host that may be a "gateway" for the
offsite backup.  In cases of small disasters, the data at the gateway
location is quite likely to provide the most convenient means of
recovery..
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