The best quote we have ever heard!
"When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly 40 years at sea, I merely say, uneventful.
Of course there have been winter gales, storms, fog and the like, but in all my experience, I have never been in any accident of any sort worth speaking about.
I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea.
I never saw a wreck and have never been wrecked, nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort."
Captain E.J. Smith, HMS Titanic
F.A.Q's
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- I already have a tape drive and do my own backups. Why would I need a remote backup service?
Unfortunately most small businesses don’t do proper backups, even though they may have a tape drive.
- Data Loss Statistics:
Theft 6%
Virus 6%
Disk Failure 22%
Other hardware failure 19%
Human Error 22%
Software Malfunction 22%
Natural Disaster 3%
- How long does i-tape store my files?
i-tape uses a version based (rather than a time based) approach to store your files.
example – backup accounts to allowing you to restore back to any version within the last 30 days and also to store the month end for three years
Create a backup set for the accounts data and set it to keep 36 versions and run once a month. Then create another backup set for the same accounts data files and set this one to keep 30 versions and to run daily.
This will mean you can restore back to any time within the last 30 days as well as any month end in the last 3 years.
- Can i-tape back up a Postgress database?
You can back up a Postgress Database by backing up the dump file produced by using the pg_dump command.
pg_dump is a utility for backing up a PostgreSQL database. It makes consistent backups even if the database is being used concurrently. pg_dump does not block other users accessing the database (readers or writers).
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/app-pgdump.html
- Can I use Network attached storage for the cached data?
You can. However be aware that the process of calculating the data which will be transmitted offsite will produce a lot of network traffic. This will be a slower process than using a local hard disc.
