[Info-vax] Special deals on Tape Drives

[Dave Froble]

On 3/5/2022 6:53 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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
>

If one is using "the cloud", then one is using a service, not a computer system.

One might ask, how were things done back in the days of purchasing time sharing.

In both cases, it would be the responsibility of the service provider.

The real question is, how does one determine that the service provider is indeed 
doing backups, testing restores, and such.  I do not know the answer to that 
question.

Perhaps a simple test case, assuming that the service provider includes restores 
from backup, would be to set up a test file, wait an appropriate time, then 
delete it and ask the provider for a restore?

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