Off site data store

Caged said:
Archiving onto Amazon Glacier should fit 99.9% of business data archiving requirements. Outside of that you have stuff like Iron Mountain if you really want to use tapes.

If the internet connection isn't good enough to archive to a cloud service then get that upgraded as you're just holding the business back in so many other ways without decent connectivity.
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Google Nearline is cheaper (no access fees) and much simpler pricing structure. Glacier is just ridiculous in its pricing complexity and restrictions.

https://cloud.google.com/storage-nearline/
 
rotor said:
In my experience small businesses are TERRIBLE at managing tape backups. What I've seen multiple times, is that something is wrong with the backups, the employee dutifully puts in a new tape every day, but in fact they haven't had backups for months. In one place, the receptionist had been taking the tapes home every night, but they hadn't had a valid backup for something like 18 months.
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I went to a Holiday Inn Express (franchise) that had a lovely, tidy rack full of ProLiants. Somebody was happily changing the tapes every day.

There wasn't even a backup job configured in ArcServe... :o:D
 
rotor said:
Google Nearline is cheaper (no access fees) and much simpler pricing structure. Glacier is just ridiculous in its pricing complexity and restrictions.

https://cloud.google.com/storage-nearline/
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Point taken, but Nearline pricing isn't as straightforward as that link claims, and Glacier has never made any claims about being anything other than tape-like archive storage.

Full Google Nearline details here: https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing#storage-pricing

I also specifically mentioned archiving - the sort of job where you have sufficient warning about retrieval and it happens so rarely that the access costs are not as relevant as they would be for your daily backup jobs.
 
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