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What are the pros and cons of backing up my database to the cloud?
What are the advantages and disadvantages to backing up my database to the cloud as opposed to a traditional off-site strategy?
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High Winds as well as other natural disasters!
You will need to weight the difference between disasters that could happen to you locally as well as disasters that may happen to large server farms.
In general the Cloud is safer for your data than your Home Office. It is kind of like the safety of the Titanic vs. a lifeboat if you get the drift.
Local is completely in your hands. No one else to blame for Problems.
The speed of your file file upload will be dependent on your internet connection.
Elliot,
The main advantage to backing up to the “cloud”, if we will use that term, would be to get your data off site and possibly out of region. This protects your data from a disaster that could impact your production facility, the city it is in, and possibly the entire region it is located in. Having said that it does not really do you any good if you don’t have a plan on how to restore that data to another location in a time line that would allow you to continue doing business.
The down side to this would be the throughput you have to a hosted service will be much less than a solution on your LAN would be. This would mean it will take longer for your backup jobs to complete and any restores would be limited to the bandwidth available as well. This may not be a deal breaker as it is dependant on the bandwidth you have, the software you are using, and the size of the data set you are backing up as to if it would have any negative performance impacts on your DB.
Budget aside the scenario I prefer is to back up your data to local storage on your LAN and then have that storage replicate its self to off site, hosted, or cloud storage out of the area.
Hi Elliot.
I work for an UK based organisation called Node4.
We provide cloud based backup solutions to many organisations who have moved from a traditional backup model to our N-Vault cloud service due to the cost assosicated with running, managing and maintaining this type of solution.
Our solution provides a secure tier 3 data centre envioronment, with a secondary snapshot of the data at a seperate tier 3 DC.
To cover off Steve's point on the throughput, this is partly correct. We perform the initial backup from a storage device and then only backup the incremental changes, thus keep the backup window very small.
Our DC's are based on Derby, Wakfield and Northampton.
If you'd like more information, drop me an email to c.durnford@node4.co.uk.
Kind Regards
Carl
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