G+_Mark Messiha Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Any suggestions for meeting the offsite portion of a 3-2-1 backup plan? I have a family members place I can put the device but any suggestions on a good device to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Travis Hershberger Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 USB3 hard drive. Many options available. The other popular home option is on-line (cloud), like Amazon S3 or CrashPlan. Mid and large size businesses tend to use tape, but the drive to read/write a tape is $3K and up. Initial purchase price of tape is very steep when you consider that external hard drives are about the same cost of a new tape cartridge. On-line depends on your upload speed, so can be VERY slow to get the first backup completed. Your best bandwidth will always be a hard drive in a car/truck (IE: 4TB uploaded in the time it takes to drive there.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Larry Havenstein Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 You could use Crashplan and a small computer with a big USB drive on the family members place. Crashplan allows point to point backups as an option. Crashplan offers a free version that can do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Larry Havenstein Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 If you do the Crashplan option do your inital backups in the same lan to speed it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Bill H. Sr. McMullen Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 There are general approaches. (A).Three Separate physical hard drives (one for the original file, one for the first backup, and one for the second backup); the external USB drive suggested above is one example of a usable, first and second copies, drive. Remember, the first copy is in addition to the original. (B).One drive for your original, an external drive (or optical disc) for your first backup copy, and a second backup copy to the 'Cloud'. ©.If you wish you can use CrashPlan two ways. One, if you have willing friends, is to backup via the internet to your friend's hard drive space at your friend's remote location. Hint: turnabout is fair play. Two, CrashPlan also provides for backup to their company server farms (the 'Cloud'). Do not overlook Dropbox, OneDrive, CloudDrive, etc, etc, etc. (D).For blank optical disc enthusiasts: All are probably aware of the fragility of most consumer grade blank optical media. BluRay blank media are SOMETIMES superior. Be certain the blank BluRay discs you purchase were manufactured using the more expensive HTL process which meets the original BluRay spec, rather than the less expensive LTH process which meets the DVD manufacture spec. OR, you can purchase an M-Disc capable BluRay burner drive (typically LG brand, $75 or less, internal or external), and purchase the M-Disc blank media (DVD and BluRay) and never have to worry about bit-rot ever, period. PS, any optical disc media can be broken, scratched, and.or melted!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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