[Info-vax] Special deals on Tape Drives

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 3/5/22 20:12, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 3/5/2022 8:01 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> Bill Gunshannon  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> 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?
>>
>> "Cloud" is a new word for "timesharing."  You're hiring some people to 
>> run
>> computers for you, and that includes doing backups and keeping them 
>> offsite.
>> Your service level agreement with them will detail how these are done and
>> how often they are tested, and you have a right to occasionally demand a
>> restore for test purposes.
> 
> I think that depends on the type of cloud.
> 
> With IaaS cloud then I would expect the IT department being responsible
> for backup as always.
> 
> Only with PaaS cloud and managed services it would fully be the
> cloud vendors responsibility to do backup.
> 

And all these Cloud geniuses know how to do a backup and restore on
VMS?  And we won't even get into how you get them to store the backups 
in a different location.

bill