Author: Graham Bleach Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Off-site backup (storage) services
2008/10/16 Tony Whitmore <tony@???>: > Alternatively, in the on-line backup arena, we currently backup 3TB of data
> in a full backup run. It is practical to use an on-line backup service for
> this quantity of data or is the expense signficantly higher than the
> storage services mentioned above?
3TB is going to take over 66 hours to transfer over a 100Mbit/s link
(not allowing for upstream congestion, IP overheads and latency
effects). It only seems feasible if you have reliable Gigabit link to
the online backup service.
