[Hidden-tech] Back-up for macbook online, cloud, etc.

[andrew bellak]

Hey John,

Well said.  I looked into this about a year ago for a friend¹s firm and they
ended up doing hot swappable raid array hard drives as well as a copy of
their stuff on a server farm somewhere.  if I¹m remembering and spelling
correctly.  I¹m probably going to have double back ups, one online like
Jungle Disk and one on site in a fire box like a hard drive or digital
tapes.  I guess one question is, what is the relative security of tapes over
external hard drives?

Thanks,
Andrew

Andrew Bellak
Registered Investment Advisor - SRI specialist
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On 9/26/08 11:00 AM, "John Danek" <jdanek at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Andrew,
> 
> You should consider web hosting right from your MacBook.  OSX was actually
> created, in part, to make web hosting easy for the individual.  It gets a bit
> technical, so you might want to get someone familiar w/IT to help you, if
> that's an option you're willing to take a look at.
> 
> I frown when I hear about online backup systems, even from Mac.  You'd be much
> better off setting up your own on-site backup system that you can control and
> grow.  Any person involved with security, in particular, online security will
> tell you online backups are extremely vulnerable.  Just a heads-up to take a
> moment and look at all the angles before jumping in.  I'd consider a tape
> backup system that can be backed up daily or weekly.  You could then store the
> tapes in a fireproof onsite safe.  No one ever considers what would happen if
> the online systems somehow failed and all your data was lost.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> John M. Danek
> 
> andrew bellak wrote:
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>>  Back-up for macbook online, cloud, etc. Well it¹s time to get serious about
>> backing up data for my biz.  I¹m running a 2008 Macbook with MS Office using
>> Entourage for e-mail.  I want to back-up all my e-mails and select files.
>>  
>>  I¹ve looked into Mobile Me by Apple.  It seems really cool if you want to
>> sync your Macbook, iPhone, and/or iPod but costs a fair amount per GB data,
>> $99/year for only 20GB, $49 next 20GB or $99 for 40GB extra.
>>  
>>  My Entourage files alone = 96GB.
>>  
>>  Alternatively, MozyHome for Mac only charges $4.95/month per computer for
>> UNLIMITED STORAGE.  Even though I plan to use it for business, they don¹t
>> offer a business option for Mac at this time.  MozyPro is only for PC.
>>  
>>  On a related note, thanks to the great, recent thread on CRM, I may use
>> Salesforce.com in which case, much data will be stored on Salesforce servers.
>>  
>>  Now when I have a website built, I know that will need to be hosted on a
>> server somewhere and perhaps that could also be a source for another place to
>> back-up data.
>>  
>>  Thanks in advance for any tips.
>>  
>>  Sincerely,
>>  Andrew
>>  
>>  Andrew Bellak
>>  Registered Investment Advisor - SRI specialist
>>  andrew at StakeholdersCapital.com
>>  (m) 646-552-5783
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