[Info-vax] Special deals on Tape Drives

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 3/5/22 16:37, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 3/5/22 12:38 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> Who is responsible for backups in a Cloud based system?
> 
> The same people that are responsible for backups when in an on premises 
> data center.
> 
> Why would the location of the system alter who's responsible for 
> ensuring that backups are being created and tested?

How would I perform backups and test them if I don't even know where,
physically, the system I am running on is?  If I did, would they even
let me in the door, much less into the data center?

> 
> Sure, the technology used for the backups may be different.  But -- to 
> me -- the responsible parties are still the same.

Are you saying backups have to be done over the Internet to tapes
located in my office?  After all, the reason for going to The Cloud
was to get out of the data center business.  Even in a data center
as small as mine was at the University doing a complete backup (usually
done once a month) over the network could take a more than a day.  That
can't be right.

Still don't see the advantage of The Cloud.

bill