There is a fascinating article by Nigel Harris detailing the ever popular topic of online backup. It’s hellish detailed, a masterpiece of research but fundamentally flawed. Backup, as Nigel points out, is an expensive and risk sensitive issue. It should not be.
My entire business is now hosted somewhere or other and most likely in highly secure, bunkered data centres in obscure parts of the US. That’s because I don’t retain anything of value on the desktop. Not email. spreadsheets, documents – nada. Neither do I have any paper records. If someone else wants to print them, let them pay to chop down trees.
So the issue is a non-issue. Yet another benefit of running your business where the infrastructure is in the ether using SaaS.
