The Spyder
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My work currently has a terrible offsite backup plan. It involves 2 external hard drives, one being swapped out once a week... If they remember. This is better then nothing, but still unacceptable... Sooo due to some spare hardware I have decided to look at putting a small server either at home and bumping up my internet connection or putting one of our spare servers in a colo. This has to be over a secure VPN, which is no problem as I have the hardware for that too.
Question is, has anyone here done this? Home or colo? What as the expense at the colo for a 50mg line? We have about 700gb of backups now and it is looking to double as we move to a paperless office this fall.
I am thinking of adding a second 50mg comcast line and having the company pay for a 50mg line at the owners or owners sons house and sticking the old 2tb backup server there just to test it out. I can duplicate the backup ZFS box to this offsite box, keeping any load off the primary ZFS box. This would be under $300 a month and give me offsite nightly backups which do not rely on someone remembering to swap a HDD.
Question is, has anyone here done this? Home or colo? What as the expense at the colo for a 50mg line? We have about 700gb of backups now and it is looking to double as we move to a paperless office this fall.
I am thinking of adding a second 50mg comcast line and having the company pay for a 50mg line at the owners or owners sons house and sticking the old 2tb backup server there just to test it out. I can duplicate the backup ZFS box to this offsite box, keeping any load off the primary ZFS box. This would be under $300 a month and give me offsite nightly backups which do not rely on someone remembering to swap a HDD.