<div dir="ltr">What are peoples thoughts about the backups being "online", atleast with tape backups, a malicious user would have to request all the tapes and then process them one by one - or get some big magnet.<div><br></div><div>But with online backups, presumably you can do it all with a click of a button, isn't that a bit of a worry ?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 May 2017 at 23:15, Aus Net Servers Australia Pty Ltd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@ausnetservers.net.au" target="_blank">info@ausnetservers.net.au</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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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Hi Daniel,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">All the data is stored here in Australia. Well we are syncing to an Australian IP Address.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Darren Moss [mailto:<a href="mailto:Darren.Moss@cloud365.com.au" target="_blank">Darren.Moss@cloud365.<wbr>com.au</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 15 May 2017 8:23 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Robert Hudson <<a href="mailto:hudrob@gmail.com" target="_blank">hudrob@gmail.com</a>>; Aus Net Servers Australia Pty Ltd <<a href="mailto:info@ausnetservers.net.au" target="_blank">info@ausnetservers.net.au</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [AusNOG] Offsite Backup Recommendations<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ" 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 ?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ" 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 ?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<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 [<a href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.<wbr>ausnog.net</a>]
<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> <a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Offsite Backup Recommendations<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ">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).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ">On 14 May 2017 10:44 pm, "Aus Net Servers Australia Pty Ltd" <<a href="mailto:info@ausnetservers.net.au" target="_blank">info@ausnetservers.net.au</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We have looked into
<a href="http://probax.io" target="_blank">probax.io</a> but that’s a bit cost prohibitive
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any suggestions would be great<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards<u></u><u></u></p>
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