Amazon for online backup?
Amazon provided a service level agreement to go with their S3 online storage offering - I haven’t read all of the details yet, but they are promising a 99.9% uptime guarantee - and if they miss that mark - you receive a discount on your bill!
I’ll leave the debate regarding this as an effective online backup to some of my colleagues with better hardware skills than I have - but I suspect that for a mini-disaster recovery plan - this might be both attractive and affordable.
I used their online calculator to see what it would cost every month to store 20GB of data, including moving 20GB from your machine to S3 (that would be to get your backup to their site initially) and that price was $11.00.
Your monthly cost (assuming you didn’t need to update that emergency set of information) would be $3.00, and when you moved all 20GB back to your local machine, it would cost $4.00.
With the new service level agreement - this might be a terrific way to build redundancy into your backup solution - copy your mission critical data once a month (or once a quarter, or once a week - depending on your risk tolerance) and continue using your local backup tools for your everyday needs.
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