In today’s gp/bp an open door will be kicked in: take your
backups offsite!
I was actually tempted to create a poll to see how many of you do
not have proper backups, and how many of you do not take those
backups offsite. It is a simple piece of advice and relatively
simple to set up. Offsite in this case would ideally be
physically offsite: to a different server in a different building
in a different location. A start however is to take them to a
different server. And don’t make the mistake of thinking a
different VPS on the same physical server is good enough. True,
that will protect you from operating system failure of the guest,
but it will likely not protect you from hardware failure, or
operating system failure on the host OS.
Also, take good care of how you are getting your backups offsite. A normal FTP connection might do the job, but it is hardly secure. Ideally, use SFTP or rsync over ssh to stream your backups …
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