[Info-vax] Special deals on Tape Drives

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/6/2022 10:06 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 3/5/2022 8:01 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>> "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.
> 
> Maybe.  It'll say so in your SLA.  Read your SLA carefully, then have a
> lawyer read it, then have a computer center guy read it, then read it
> some more.  Everything the provider is obligated to do is in there,
> and if it's not in there you shouldn't expect it.

That is good advice. For any business agreement - cloud or something else.

Arne