Until there's a power outage, flooding, malice, etc.
I think the main issue is that the cloud providers don't publish much about outages that don't affect the end-user. I mean a failed hard drive happens all the time, but S3 is never affected by that.
Depends on your bandwidth requirements. Also, if you want even higher reliability, you might consider getting two independent internet links into your basement, which is pretty doable in an urban setting.
Re:How They SRE
by Mauricebranagh on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @08:18AM
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But they wont have diverse routing :-) all it takes is a navvy with a back hoe digging in the wrong place.
And you also need to have diverse routing for power coming in and generator / battery room set up.
Re:How They SRE
by snovv_crash on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @03:05AM
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Run the backup from your friend's basement in the next town over using a different ISP. You can run the backup for them.
Re:How They SRE
by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @08:08AM
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For a long time, my off-site backup was at my grandmother's house because it was the furthest geographic location I could give someone a box who would leave it plugged into their Internet. ;)
It'll run for ten years for next to nothing.