When we started Aradius Media Network almost three years ago, Reggie, a buddy of mine laughed at me for having two backups of our sites on different places and labeled me a super paranoid geek. Recent fire on The Planet H1 datacenter was a wake up call for him as he was affected by the unfortunate incident.
He has a secondary server (in the same datacenter – The Planet H1) with RAID 10 as a backup server where he rsync his primary server, however due to the incident, his backup server RAID array was corrupted and he was unable to recover it. Lucky him his primary server was intact, however this experience makes him rethink his backup strategy.
Personally, I backed up our site’s data with several services and kept in multiple locations. We use rsync.net, Amazon S3, Seagate’s eVault, and my personal home backup consists of Drobo storage and a portable 2.5-inch HDD that I keep in a bank safe box and updated once a week. Of course all my backups are encrypted :)
If you value your data, safeguard it as if it’s your own life. So don’t call me paranoid, I’m just a geek that don’t want to lose my hard work.
Bill Sehmel Says:
SoftLayer also allows our customers to order NAS / Evault services in other datacenters that we have, so you can use remote backups to say Washington DC NAS / Backup servers from your Dallas machine.
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Posted on June 5th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Data Technician Says:
This is an absolute necessity in today’s world. It is no longer a paranoid person’s endeavor, it is the endeavor of anyone who wants to protect their personal information.
Posted on November 21st, 2008 at 3:12 pm