Business backup strategies

[NewtonTrino]

Well the server is itself raided as it is, although I can't remember what flavour at the moment. And a good job too, what with the failure rate of the drives in the last server. But that doesn't cover us in the case of a fire. And as I say, we've had no luck with looking at online backups. Aside from the speed of the line, the 'cloud' would in fact be a single supplier of server space; while I would trust them to, for example, spread and duplicate the data in case of disaster at their end, there is the possibility that they could go out of business or simply stop providing that service, which would be a big headache to sort out.

There's no reason you can't use more than one service. Or if you're really paranoid co-locate your own backup server somewhere and use that as your backup facility.

I still think something like a synology is super cost effective for local backups.
It's also very redudant but of course you still need offsite.