How Not To Back Up Your Data

Posted on May 15, 2009, 09:33, by glendale2x, under General.

Here’s a lesson to everyone out there: backups mean keeping your data offline, not on another server connected to the internet.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8049780.stm

Online backups (such as through rsync) can be good for supplemental backups, but should not be relied on alone if what you’re backing up is really really really really important.

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