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alexsh1
 Post subject: backup availability?
PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 1:03 pm 
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Hi Tom

Any news on when backup will be offered please?
I am using another company currently in order to perform a backup which is not ideal. I would like to have something more local :)
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// I would like to have something more local

It is not always best to have your backup local...
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Check out http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4067
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alexsh1
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fos wrote:
// I would like to have something more local

It is not always best to have your backup local...


Why? Its much quicker to have it locally! It took more than 12h for me to backup my server in London (7Gb) with rsync to the Dallas one and yet it has not been finished!

Local: I mean on the same network but on the different server.
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A local backup is fine for protecting against hardware failure and operator error. You need a non-local backup to guard against total disaster - for example - last summer ThePlanet has a fire/explosion at one of their datacentres that took thousands of servers off line for several days.

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pclissold wrote:
A local backup is fine for protecting against hardware failure and operator error. You need a non-local backup to guard against total disaster - for example - last summer ThePlanet has a fire/explosion at one of their datacentres that took thousands of servers off line for several days.


Fair point, but you cannot be ever 100% insured. There can be an internet disaster and you cannot connect to your Linode :shock: :shock: ...whatever. Besides, how many datacentres had an explosion like The Planet?

My view on all this is to have a backup on the same network, but with different datacentre or at least on the different server.
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