finally cost of the backup service must be in equilibrium with the value of data for such backup.
The expression
"would be too cheap to backup potentially sensitive student and school info" is a nice example of road to hell.
There is a difference when you will backup tons of trash, or really useful info.
1. initial request was about:
2. extended by:
3. and also by:
Think twice:
- when you will create single initial Bare-metal backup of 250GB disk you will eat 250x10= 2500GB= 2.5TB just for the initial session
- the you will create continuous (I hope) System (OS) only backup (I hope again) based on chosen scenarios, then you will eat additional space. Then you have to calculate also this space, before you will purchase disk drives.
- there is better (from any reason) use Drive for non system data operation, then backup them to external disk by Hyper backup service and System only backup by Active backup service.
This will be backup and data availability in lowcost level. Yeap, there is also backup of backup
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Anyway for 50 children in really, really small school it’s about 14USD per parent. What isn’t much. When the number of children is higher, then ...
This idea can open another hidden dimension:
- why don’t purchase two NASes and operate containers for an education purposes. In these corona days - really useful step.