[olug] News for next meeting regarding Backup solutions

[Rob Townley]

As i understand it, the next meeting will be about backup solution(s).
 Hopefully nitty gritty handson stuff.  Online backup provider
Carbonite just sued Promise Technology for problems with Promise Raid
cards that occurred 2 years ago.    Carbonite may have had $50 million
in capital, but must not have been testing thoroughly enough - they
didn't learn from the bubble.

Underscores the need that cloud backup software first has to keep
another copy on the customer site.

So far, my experience with online backup is pick 2 of the following:
secure, cheap, GB (a moving target sizewise that was about 50GB a few
months back).

If you read the article, do so carefully.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/23/online-backup-company-carbonite-loses-customers-data-blames-and-sues-suppliers/