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Re:Show HN: A self-hosted alternative to Trello, Basecamp, a... by wott on Thursday September 01, 2016 @08:48PM (#12409975)
> Not storing important things in the 'cloud' is surely a bigger problem. Every heard of off-site backups?

Yes, those are external hard-drives that are moved to a different location, and which can be restored in a matter of minutes or hours.

I won't put my stuff in a cloud backup the restoration of which will take several weeks (supposing it doesn't fail during the process)...

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Re:Show HN: A self-hosted alternative to Trello, Basecamp, a... by IANAD on Thursday September 01, 2016 @11:49PM (#12410707)
> which can be restored in a matter of minutes or hours.

In theory. More realistically, most don't take DR very seriously and it would be more in the days to weeks range.

For example- that backup you have- is it in any way hardware or base OS image dependent? Are you absolutely sure of that? Do you have unused backup hardware offsite with the OS on it and ready to go in case there is a fire in the rack at the server farm?

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Re:Show HN: A self-hosted alternative to Trello, Basecamp, a... by asdfa4sd on Thursday September 01, 2016 @10:27PM (#12410407)
I'm busy enough, I'm glad I don't have to screw around with shuttling an external hard drive back and forth. I use Backblaze, and when my laptop was stolen, BackBlaze FedEx'd me a replica overnight for $200.
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