However, our 500GB or so of user data is being mirrored to a second server, but not backed up off site currently. This is due to both cost (especially in the past), complexity, and a lot of other priorities taking, well, priority. However, with hard drive prices falling like rocks while the capacities increase, I believe we will very soon implement some new backups using something along these lines, although using Mozy or even LiveStor at ACS is attractive but at the same time, expensive. It does get the data way, way offsite compared to taking a disk home, but fast restores become more difficult because it has to be transported over the network or out-of-state on some physical media. Also, initial backup times for Mozy at least are high, especially for anything more than several hundred megabytes!

So the crown jewels are safe, and everything else is somewhat safe but needs to get safer. I just need to find the best and most cost-effective way of doing that.

Nice cartoon by the way, maybe I’ll pass that along with whatever my backup proposal ends up being :-)