Offsite backups for the rest of us?

[Sy]

I've been thinking about these exact same issues.

I was thinking about a fireproof box, or even a safe.. but the safes
are really expensive and I didn't think the boxes would survive very
long.

I never thought about the sandbag thing.. would that actually be of real help?

Previously, I had done a little bit of exploring into various kinds of
data synchronization applications.. I looked at softraid solutions and
even at cvs-like solutions.  I hated all of it and never found
something I liked.  I ended up doing things the slow and thorough way.

Something which might be interesting to consider would be to
heavily-encrypt the data and then a community could provide mutual
remotely synchronized offsite backups.  I'd be willing to buy hard
drives to do something like this.

Heck, I can even imagine a p2p secure backup project for this idea.



Oh.. and hi everyone.. I'm new.  =)

Sy,



On Apr 11, 2005 2:07 PM, Robert Brockway <rbrockway-wgAaPJgzrDxH4x6Dk/4f9A at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, John Vetterli wrote:
> 
> > Just wondering: would keeping CDs and DVDs in a fireproof strongbox keep your
> > data safe and readable if there was a major fire?
> 
> A couple of reasons I'm not a fan of this type of solution:
> 
> 1. Some "fireproof" safes are "fireproof" because _they_ will survive a
>    fire - not their sensitive contents.  You need to establish how hot it
>    will get in the safe for a fire of $x degrees for $y hours and hope it
>    a real fire does not exceed these specifications.
> 
> 2. A firesafe only protects against some failure modes.  The building may
>    be hit by an aircraft or even a car resulting in a lot of damage and
>    the destruction of the safe.  A safe that is not properly secured may
>    actually be stolen.
> 
>    An offsite backup (sufficiently far away) protects against almost every
>    sort of disaster.  If a large asteroid hits the planet all bets are
>    off.
> 
> Rob
> 
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