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On 12/14/2011 08:14 AM, markw at mohawksoft.com wrote: >> The bottom line is that there is no backup medium that is safe.. All >> media degrade over time. A local RAID is good, but one lightning strike >> of other glitch can render the drives dead. A cloud is probably the best >> solution since it is actively managed, but you have to trust the cloud >> provider, (1) to maintain the integrity of your data, and (2) the >> security of your data. > The "two backups" rule address issue #1, yea, I know, even double > redundancy will fail eventually. Life is risk. > > http://www.mohawksoft.org/?q=node/83 > > As for item #2, I actually take care of that. By compressing and > encrypting PRIOR to uploading to the cloud, there's no way any interested > party can see your data without your password in a reasonable amount of > time given the current level of computing power. You are quite right. Chevron had a pretty decent disaster recovery system, but during Katrina they lost their primary and secondary data centers. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
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