I have been looking for a remote network backup solution for myself, and also for another person who wants to back up their office network. Here’s what I want:
- Nightly automated incremental remote (at least 90 miles away) backup of at least one machine, perhaps more, of at least 250 gb of data
- Ability to restore files, maybe not from bare metal, with up to 4 hours of “lag time” before data starts coming back
- The remote backup is someone else’s responsibility to verify. For example if the data’s going to a tape, and a tape goes bad, some other entity is responsible for detecting that within some period of time and asking for the data to be sent again
Notably, I do not need point in time restores and it’s OK if it takes a long time to restore the data.
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