[BBLISA] Network-based backup in the Boston metro area?

[Charles Homan]

Thanks, Matt.  I guess that begs the question, does anyone have any
experience - good or bad - with the professional backup services?  We're a
primarily Linux/Nexenta shop.


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Matt Finnigan <mfinnigan at gmail.com> wrote:

> You'd do well to look at a service that offers an on-site caching
> appliance - coupled with a hosted offsite repository, you get the best of
> both worlds, unless your site catches on fire/explodes/etc. Any of the
> professional backup services will also send you media for restore if you
> needed it, of course.
>
>
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Charles Homan <bblisa at homan.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> There are those in my company who want to move to a network-centric
>> backup plan, as opposed to offsite tapes.  I'm not 100% sold on the idea,
>> because when I run the numbers it looks like it would take weeks to
>> restore, say, 10 TB of data if we have to download it on our existing
>> network links.  The price of the bandwidth to get that to a couple days
>> looks exorbitant.
>>
>> What I'm wondering is if there is a facility in the Boston area that can
>> accept our backups online, but then return them to us on physical media in
>> the event of a (major) failure?  Does anyone know of a company that
>> provides such a service?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Charles
>>
>>
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