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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-NZ link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Just wondering, what are the ramifications of using software/services from a US based/incorporated provider ?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Is your/your customer’s data subject to the Patriot Act and potentially accessible ?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>D.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Robert Hudson<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, 15 May 2017 9:35 a.m.<br><b>To:</b> ANSA SERVERS<br><b>Cc:</b> ausnog@lists.ausnog.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Offsite Backup Recommendations<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>I hope you discovered the lack of recoverability as part of your testing regime, rather than when you needed to recover as part of a DR event.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Untested backups are worthless. You simply must include regular testing as part of your backup regime if you want any confidence that recovery is possible when you really need it.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I currently have about 20TB backed up with Crashplan, in their Australian datacentre. I've had no issues recovering data from them on multiple occasions, including a big recovery back onto my NAS a few months ago. Crashplan also lets you keep a local or remote copy of your backup data yourself (and in fact lets you do so completely free).<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 14 May 2017 10:44 pm, "Aus Net Servers Australia Pty Ltd" <<a href="mailto:info@ausnetservers.net.au">info@ausnetservers.net.au</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-AU>Hey,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-AU> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-AU>First time posting here… My boss has asked me to look into what cloud providers they are in Australia to backup all our backups (Over 10tbs) to after having a major disagreement with Crashplan after finding out when we went to recover files that there was no files there to recover and they will not explain why.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-AU> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-AU>We have looked into <a href="http://probax.io" target="_blank">probax.io</a> but that’s a bit cost prohibitive <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-AU> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-AU>Any suggestions would be great<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-AU> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-AU>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-AU> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-AU>James<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-AU>Server Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-AU>Aus Net Servers Australia Pty Ltd<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-AU> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td width="13%" style='width:13.0%;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=74 height=24 id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://management.ausnetservers.net.au/exchange-external-mail/followus.png" alt="Follow us"><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width="7%" style='width:7.0%;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ANSASERVERS" target="_blank"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=32 height=32 id="_x0000_i1026" src="https://www.ausnetservers.com.au/exchange-external-mail/facebook.png" alt=Facebook></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width="7%" style='width:7.0%;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/ANSASERVERS" target="_blank"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=32 height=32 id="_x0000_i1027" src="https://management.ausnetservers.net.au/exchange-external-mail/twitter.png" alt=Twitter></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width="68%" style='width:68.0%;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://plus.google.com/101907839864050850442/" target="_blank"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=32 height=32 id="_x0000_i1028" src="https://management.ausnetservers.net.au/exchange-external-mail/google+.png" alt="Google+"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width="5%" style='width:5.0%;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=4 style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=5 style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal>The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. 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