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You're certainly entitled to your own opinions and I have no issues with
anything you proposed, other than maybe a little snottiness in the
Where am I going to store it? Periodic, premanent, Quarterly FULL backups
on DVD are stored at my sister's home about 500' up the road from me.
The unused External drive is stored in my fireproof safe. This is a FULL
plus intermediates.
The most current and in-use external drive sits on the desk. Same as
other external drive.
Not sure I understand what you want to know there. Damaged physical hard
drives are seldom the reason for loss of data and only part of the reason
for having two of them for rotating data.
That's silly. At the last place I worked, we simply stored all the archives
in the hangar, about a mile away from us. But we owned it, so that wasn't
"outside" the company. For catastrophic protection what you want is "off
site" storage, NOT outside the company. In fact, outside the company is a
lot less safe that on company propterty where only known, authorized
employees handle the archives. You'll find most companies keep the data on
their OWN proptery, looked after by their own authorized employees, and
where it's almost instantly available.
In addition, catastrophic protection is NOT the most widely source of
recovered data. The vast majority of times data loss is recovered directly
from the currently running archival machine, whatever it be.
Are you going to walk around
If a person is having to copy something casually like that, then the copies
would come from the currently running archival equipment in order to get the
most current data.
I have no problems with subscribing to a back-up service if that's what you
want to do. It works for may people. However, you're only going to use
THAT resource in the case of a catastrophic loss, not to get back a file or
two. There has to be much more than just a copy at some paid for storage.
You can afford a lot of large external hard drives for the cost of a year or
so storage at some unknown location you can only get to if the internet
backbones and your computer and telco and communication trunks are
functional.
I go by:
-- Never transmit sensitive data into the air or over wires that leave your
building.
-- Never store archival data where it is not instantly available to you
upon showing up at the location where it's kept.
-- Keep in mind that encrypting is NOT a 100% protection against data
loss to another individual if they are determined to get it.
-- Only allow trusted, authorized individuals to handle the data and keep
the records of the data.
-- Keep logs of events and all transaction.
-- Keep an alternate periodic copy of full backups off site.
-- A fireproof safe is a good alternative if it's installed properly and
properly rated and located. And, they are not expensive.
-- Never, EVER allow data to be accessible from the internet.
-- ALWAYS have incrementals being run at a rate which fits your business
pattern. Realtime archiving is useful but usually not necessary.
-- Internet services (modem, gateway, etc) should never be active at the
same time the backups are powered on. In my case it's all automated and
working well.
Those are easy implementations of pretty decent security IFF it's needed.
Such storage retrieval is seldom needed, and if it is, there's something
wrong with the archiving methodology.
Most users will be served very well by simply keeping a copy of their
archives at a relative's or at least somewhere not close to the system, plus
on at least one local external hard drive.
The 'best' setup is what works for the user and allots him a reasonable rate
of protection that he understands and can make work.
anything you proposed, other than maybe a little snottiness in the
beginning said:
Where am I going to store it? Periodic, premanent, Quarterly FULL backups
on DVD are stored at my sister's home about 500' up the road from me.
The unused External drive is stored in my fireproof safe. This is a FULL
plus intermediates.
The most current and in-use external drive sits on the desk. Same as
other external drive.
Not sure I understand what you want to know there. Damaged physical hard
drives are seldom the reason for loss of data and only part of the reason
for having two of them for rotating data.
That's silly. At the last place I worked, we simply stored all the archives
in the hangar, about a mile away from us. But we owned it, so that wasn't
"outside" the company. For catastrophic protection what you want is "off
site" storage, NOT outside the company. In fact, outside the company is a
lot less safe that on company propterty where only known, authorized
employees handle the archives. You'll find most companies keep the data on
their OWN proptery, looked after by their own authorized employees, and
where it's almost instantly available.
In addition, catastrophic protection is NOT the most widely source of
recovered data. The vast majority of times data loss is recovered directly
from the currently running archival machine, whatever it be.
Are you going to walk around
If a person is having to copy something casually like that, then the copies
would come from the currently running archival equipment in order to get the
most current data.
I have no problems with subscribing to a back-up service if that's what you
want to do. It works for may people. However, you're only going to use
THAT resource in the case of a catastrophic loss, not to get back a file or
two. There has to be much more than just a copy at some paid for storage.
You can afford a lot of large external hard drives for the cost of a year or
so storage at some unknown location you can only get to if the internet
backbones and your computer and telco and communication trunks are
functional.
I go by:
-- Never transmit sensitive data into the air or over wires that leave your
building.
-- Never store archival data where it is not instantly available to you
upon showing up at the location where it's kept.
-- Keep in mind that encrypting is NOT a 100% protection against data
loss to another individual if they are determined to get it.
-- Only allow trusted, authorized individuals to handle the data and keep
the records of the data.
-- Keep logs of events and all transaction.
-- Keep an alternate periodic copy of full backups off site.
-- A fireproof safe is a good alternative if it's installed properly and
properly rated and located. And, they are not expensive.
-- Never, EVER allow data to be accessible from the internet.
-- ALWAYS have incrementals being run at a rate which fits your business
pattern. Realtime archiving is useful but usually not necessary.
-- Internet services (modem, gateway, etc) should never be active at the
same time the backups are powered on. In my case it's all automated and
working well.
Those are easy implementations of pretty decent security IFF it's needed.
Such storage retrieval is seldom needed, and if it is, there's something
wrong with the archiving methodology.
Most users will be served very well by simply keeping a copy of their
archives at a relative's or at least somewhere not close to the system, plus
on at least one local external hard drive.
The 'best' setup is what works for the user and allots him a reasonable rate
of protection that he understands and can make work.