On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 1:02 PM Phil Stracchino <ph...@caerllewys.net>
wrote:

> On 9/17/19 2:28 PM, Heitor Faria wrote:
> > Hello Phil,
> >> What are folks using for removable-drive backup storage, how do you have
> >> it configured in Bacula, and how well is it working out for you?  I
> >> desperately need a better solution here.
> >
> > Most people are doing remote sites or cloud backups.
>
>
> Bandwidth issues aside, I don't consider "Some outside company has a
> copy of every byte of data I have" to be a backup.  I consider it a data
> theft waiting to happen.
>

That's fair, although most cloud backup schemes are zero-knowledge, i.e.
the data is encrypted before it leaves your premises. I don't know how hard
that is to set up with Bacula because I haven't tried. (One hard truth
about academia is it's easier to get money for one-time costs than for
subscriptions.)

-- 
David Brodbeck
System Administrator, Department of Mathematics
University of California, Santa Barbara
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