There are cases in which cloud could function as the primary backup site, with on-premises backup as the failover environment.
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Through the cloud, an IT organization can have all of the benefits of a hot backup site without the expense and waste of underutilized compute and infrastructure resources.
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The second critical component is a fast and easy off-site backup solution.
Create an off-site backup by uploading your data to a cloud storage provider such as iCloud or Dropbox (there are countless more).
In an heroic effort to preserve 10 years of collaborative work by 35 million people, the Archive Team made a backup of the site just before it shut down.
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The tricky part is that usually, one reason companies use backup tapes is the ability to archive backup tapes off-site for extended periods of time.
The New York Fed, which oversees banks and helps operate the national payment system, said it expects to remain fully functional through any storms because of its off-site locations and backup planning.
The company nonetheless chose to build a nuclear reactor directly on the coastline and to site all of their backup generators in a location that they should have known would be placed at risk if the area were hit by a 20 foot tall tsunami.
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In case of failure, our backup during the storm was our secondary disaster recovery site.
Consultancies are also springing up, selling companies on ways to use Amazon for things like online backup systems and database clusters to speed a Web site's performance.
Now users can also use Active Copy to automatically backup key files from one Pogoplug to another off-site Pogoplug, for additional safety and redundancy.
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Saif's chief operating officer was there with his armed guards in a bulletproof SUV (with a backup bulletproof SUV following him) for a visit to the drilling site but avoided the trouble.
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