OVH France SBG was engulfed in flames resulting in the loss of a significant amount of infrastructure. They're saying no one was hurt, but lots of servers bit the dust.
Your thoughts?
Your thoughts?
If nothing else it highlights again the importance of not just keeping backups but keeping them remote, not in the same building or the data centre next door.
We sync all of our backups once every 24 hours from Helsinki to Amsterdam, and I wonder if even that is enough or if we should maybe be doing that once every 12 hours instead.
it's a 2000sq ft dockside Industrial unitI think its highlighted what you get for 'cheap' that particular DC doesn't look like a DC.
Depends on the backup. I think backing up files every 12-24 hours is OK, but if you're running a busy e-commerce, that could be a lot of data lost.We sync all of our backups once every 24 hours from Helsinki to Amsterdam, and I wonder if even that is enough or if we should maybe be doing that once every 12 hours instead.
Yes but regardless still risky to have the backups in the same datacentre as the servers you are backing up.Depends on the backup. I think backing up files every 12-24 hours is OK, but if you're running a busy e-commerce, that could be a lot of data lost.
We used to run database backups every hour for clients and that seemed to be more than enough for most. We have seen some users setup systems to generate partial dumps every 5 or 10 minutes - just depends on how big of a database you have and how often information is updating.
File systems though, usually 12-24 hours is enough.
Depends on the backup. I think backing up files every 12-24 hours is OK, but if you're running a busy e-commerce, that could be a lot of data lost.