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Online Data Storage
BigBadWolf
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I've been looking into online data storage options (i'm in the UK if thats helps), and I was wondering if anyone had any experience with this.
Basically I work for a tiny firm, which generates large quantities of data (for our size - its roughly 5-10 gigs a month) - all of which needs to be retained for the forseeable future. We do have a data server which is backed up nightly to a tape (and stored off site), but this is starting to run out of space at an alarming rate.
Unfortunately this is not as simple as just adding more hard-drives, as the limiting factor here is the backup tapes. To increase our server space and stll maintain nightly back-ups would require a new tape drive - which is something i've been told we definately can't afford at this time (lousy recession...)
Most of our data is archived and rarely accessed - so i've been looking into online storage options. We'd need to archive 200 - 300 gigs of data - although i would be amazed if we ever accessed more than 1% of that in any given month.
Its further complicated by the fact that uploading this quantity of data would take our internet connection a month of non-stop uploading - so ideally we'd like somewhere we could roll up with a portable hard-drive and they could upload it for us locally. How possible is this?
Has anyone had any experience with this sort of thing? Anything I should look out for or be wary of? Any recommendations? I'm massively out of my depth on this, so any suggestions would be wonderful!
Basically I work for a tiny firm, which generates large quantities of data (for our size - its roughly 5-10 gigs a month) - all of which needs to be retained for the forseeable future. We do have a data server which is backed up nightly to a tape (and stored off site), but this is starting to run out of space at an alarming rate.
Unfortunately this is not as simple as just adding more hard-drives, as the limiting factor here is the backup tapes. To increase our server space and stll maintain nightly back-ups would require a new tape drive - which is something i've been told we definately can't afford at this time (lousy recession...)
Most of our data is archived and rarely accessed - so i've been looking into online storage options. We'd need to archive 200 - 300 gigs of data - although i would be amazed if we ever accessed more than 1% of that in any given month.
Its further complicated by the fact that uploading this quantity of data would take our internet connection a month of non-stop uploading - so ideally we'd like somewhere we could roll up with a portable hard-drive and they could upload it for us locally. How possible is this?
Has anyone had any experience with this sort of thing? Anything I should look out for or be wary of? Any recommendations? I'm massively out of my depth on this, so any suggestions would be wonderful!
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