Linode's backup service is listed as being "on-site" in the documentation... how on-site are we talking? Are the backups on the same piece of hardware? Same datacenter?

I ask this question mainly because of this:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/ ... inia-raid/

While the incident had nothing to do with Linode, it does bring up a question about what happens if the unthinkable happens here, and one of our "neighbors" on a particular machine were to bring themselves unwanted attention like this, causing a similarly "heavy-handed" response.

So the natural inclination would be, this is a great case for having Linode backups. But, how far removed are the backups from the machine hosting a particular VPS?

Just wondering.

Same data centre different host.

My advise use Linode backups and off site backups. Linode backups are faster to restore, off site are useful should the data centre get toasted.

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I use linode backups + crashplan. You can connect to crashplan headless over ssh by following some online docs they have.

Though I'm a backup nazi,

Crashplan looks terrific, but I'm not clear how it functions as a server product. It seems desktop orientated.

Would be awesome if Linode would offer to copy my existing managed backups off site for me on a regular basis - perhaps charging extra for bandwidth and space.

Regarding crashplan:
http://support.crashplan.com/doku.php/h ... ess_client

I use it for home and my business, but haven't gone through the trouble yet to set it up for my VPS at Linode.

They do have a business/enterprise focused product:
http://www.crashplan.com/enterprise/

However, that can get expensive.