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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 November 2014 at 15:19, Barry Murphy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:barry@vibecommunications.co.nz" target="_blank">barry@vibecommunications.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">



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<div>Sounds like a small amount of data, tried Amazon S3 or something similar?</div>
<div>Amazon allows you to ‘mount’ a virtual tape drive in their cloud and you can set it to have 7 tapes and rotate them daily etc.</div>
<div>See <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/create-a-virtual-tape-library-using-the-aws-storage-gateway" target="_blank">http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/create-a-virtual-tape-library-using-the-aws-storage-gateway</a>/</div>
<div>You can then have backups older than X days go into glacier rather than the more expensive S3 if you wanted.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Alex Samad - Yieldbroker <<a href="mailto:Alex.Samad@yieldbroker.com" target="_blank">Alex.Samad@yieldbroker.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday, 26 November 2014 5:10 pm<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Peter Tiggerdine <<a href="mailto:ptiggerdine@gmail.com" target="_blank">ptiggerdine@gmail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>"<a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [AusNOG] Offsite Storage<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">My current investigation is small amount of data ~ 10-20G of core data.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">We are happy with our current backup regime but we don’t account for malicious loss of data. IE all the backups are available on the network somebody
 can delete everything online.  Offsite gives you protection from that.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Currently the old tape backup unit isn’t functioning, we are looking at around ~10-15K for a server / storage / drive / tapes.  I could also but some
 external HD’s, write to them over nite and then ship them off during the day. With the cost of SSD and their size coming down that’s even more attractive.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">What I would really like is some virtual tape library available over Mega Port, where somebody else looks after tape management or virtual tapes,
 as long as I need some process which includes authorisation to bring the tapes back on line.  But at the right price
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 26 November 2014 2:57 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Alex Samad - Yieldbroker<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Offsite Storage<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Pundits have being declaring this for 20 years and it still hasn't happened.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tape has it's place as does D2D backup.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker <<a href="mailto:Alex.Samad@yieldbroker.com" target="_blank">Alex.Samad@yieldbroker.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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Wondering what people are doing for offsite store / backups. Looking at <a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/11/26/0044239/is-lto-tape-on-its-way-out" target="_blank">
http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/11/26/0044239/is-lto-tape-on-its-way-out</a> LTO tapes sales are down.  People are backing up to disk.<br>
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But what are people doing for offsite.  Removable HDs ?<br>
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Alex<br>
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