Author: Tony Whitmore Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Off-site backup (storage) services
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:39:09 +0100, "Graham Bleach"
<graham@???> wrote: > 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.
Sadly not, only 100Mbps via JANET. I didn't know if there was a remote-end
copy-then-rsync type service which would still create a full backup but
taking less time.
