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dragon · 28-02-2009, 01:06

At the moment I backup the data on web vm (it's hosted on esxi on my co-lo'd box) the data is repilcated on to the 2nd drive (software raid1) and a script also uploads the data to a backup host (100gb offsite space, uses raid5). Due to the size of the backups I do not upload the full VM image, just the data needed to restore the websites.

Problem is the backup host is in the US , the server is in the UK, the transfer speeds are Dire. (often below 4Mbit/s) while the data is on a raid5 on the backup host the slow speeds would mean a full restore of the hosted sites.

The only reason the backups are in the US is beucase I used to have a Dedicated server in the US, but when i moved to co-lo it became based in the UK. I kept the same backup house throughout.

I was looking at a Basic dedicated box in france , ovh will offer a machine with a 250gb harddrive in + an 500gb USB drive attached for ~Â£30/mo

So the Data in theory should end up replicated on both the disks in the machine itself but also on 2 disks france.

Also I sometimes take a local copy and store them in an encrypted disk.(but due to the size of the files this only tends to be once a month and only if i remember,)

The sites are just personal sites and for friends, and while I do tell them that I don't gurantee backups I just know most people will forget to take regular backups so I at least make the effort.

28-02-2009, 01:06	#1
dragon Inactive Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 3,898	Server for backups? At the moment I backup the data on web vm (it's hosted on esxi on my co-lo'd box) the data is repilcated on to the 2nd drive (software raid1) and a script also uploads the data to a backup host (100gb offsite space, uses raid5). Due to the size of the backups I do not upload the full VM image, just the data needed to restore the websites. Problem is the backup host is in the US , the server is in the UK, the transfer speeds are Dire. (often below 4Mbit/s) while the data is on a raid5 on the backup host the slow speeds would mean a full restore of the hosted sites. The only reason the backups are in the US is beucase I used to have a Dedicated server in the US, but when i moved to co-lo it became based in the UK. I kept the same backup house throughout. I was looking at a Basic dedicated box in france , ovh will offer a machine with a 250gb harddrive in + an 500gb USB drive attached for ~Â£30/mo So the Data in theory should end up replicated on both the disks in the machine itself but also on 2 disks france. Also I sometimes take a local copy and store them in an encrypted disk.(but due to the size of the files this only tends to be once a month and only if i remember,) The sites are just personal sites and for friends, and while I do tell them that I don't gurantee backups I just know most people will forget to take regular backups so I at least make the effort.