On 2016-04-25 14:27, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 04/25/2016 08:09 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Store your backup in a fire resistant (insulated) in the basement?
LOL! Underneath he condo's underground parking, perhaps?
Ah! But I thought that all the people in the USA lived in those big and beautiful individual houses. Except for those living in log houses out on nowhere. LOL! :-) You could rent a storage room on the next condo, and run a cable roof to roof. A decade or two ago, we had "illegal" cable TV service that way on some cities here: running the cable roof to roof. At the time there were only 2 tv channels, which soon became 6. No cable anywhere (officially). Just a tiny bit more seriously, each building could use some space on the next building, and run a backup server there (on LAN, not internet). Mutual benefit. You only need to find interested parties ;-)
Buried in the garden? If you have it, that is.
Careful, have to find somewhere away from the buried bodies :-)
That would be Felix the cat. :-)
You can even connect by cable to it without removing from the box :-)
No, I don't think so. Connectivity means it can be hacked.
Use fibre, and point to point encryption.
A Risk Analysis not only considers the threats and probabilities, but also the cost and lifecycle. A backup buried under the rubble of a burnt building is going to be inaccessible for some time;
True, but it should survive.
under some conditions it may even be irretrievable. Directions for 'buried treasure' are notorious in their ability to be misinterpreted.
:-)
I think there's a good reason that bank safe deposit boxes rank well as a result of a neutral Risk Analysis for individuals and SMBs, and companies like Iron Mountain for larger businesses.
Bank boxes... well, there is that. Store your backup hard disk in there. Rotate once per fortnight. Me, I do have an enclosed garden. I could setup a NAS out there. I haven't bothered. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)