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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IronWolf" data-source="post: 2819909" data-attributes="member: 21076">I will say up front that its always easier to be afforded the luxury of an armchair quarterback than to be the one that actually is doing the work.  I certainly don't have all the details of the situation, which can certainly change observations to one way or another.As Glassjaw said, 2GB isn't that much space really.  Is this a compressed or uncompressed backup?  20 hours to download 2GB?  Someone in another thread I believe mentioned that seems like a long time to download.  I don't know the bandwidth allocation on the hosted side for EN World though, so maybe it is the bottleneck.  Most cable modem connections and even a fair number of DSL connections should be able to come in well under 20 hours.Downloading aside, I would think you could keep at least a couple of backups on the server itself.  Then those can be shuffled off to an offsite location automatically as needed for extra safety.  Even if it took 6 hours in the middle of the night to shuffle them offsite, that shouldn't be too big of a deal.  All of this would be automated, so once its setup it wouldn't even require that much maintenance save for a test restore here and there to be sure the backups were good (and even that can be automated to some degree).If decisions were made that 3 months loss of posts, new memberships, etc was reasonable then I can see why that might have done the trick.  As with everything one must weigh the options that one has and determine what acceptable risk is.  I would think though that with existing resources one could pull off a weekly backup.  As mentioned before though, I am only operating on knowledge I have of this place picked up from various threads over the past 2 years.</blockquote>

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