* Dan Colish <dcol...@gmail.com> [090211 10:44]: > > That probably doesn't qualify as "off site", there's a good chance the USB > > drive will still be plugged into the server during a disaster. > > > > Depending on the size of each backup, you could email an attachment to a > > free webmail provider, or use one of the GMail-disk programs. > > > > > the concept of good DR and free are way out of sync here. use s3 if you want > a cheap solution. >
Amen. For my purposes, duplicity to Amazon S3 has been great. Last monthly bill was $0.17 USD. That's not a typo, 17 cents for daily incremental backups spanning 60 days. That is, a full every 30 days, incrementals otherwise, and retaining two consecutive sets at any given time. It's so cheap, how can you not afford good backups... Be sure you test recovery before you have a failure. Backups are worthless unless you can recover them. Preacher, choir, ... Jim
