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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head
Online backups don't work for me. Not when I have 40+ TB to backup. A solid on-site backup plan trumps online backup every time. Here's the trick: Store data in triplicate. Keep one set for actively working with, one backup set on-site, and one backup set off-site, then constantly rotate your two backups. You cannot fail. There is no way three sets of data will be destroyed or stolen all at the same time.  |
To be clear, I wasn't for a split second suggesting online backup should be used in isolation. Just that you should use it on top of your on site back up.
I heard the 3-2-1 rule. 3 copies of everything, on 2 different media types and 1 offsite.
Which I kinda liked.