The life of Brian Kenny
All major companies need to have their data in a high redundancy, availablity and backed-up envoirnment. In order to keep the data here in such a confirguration, we use off-site backups. If the building burns down, we can start again.
The primary decision is to move the data to a data center or another costly data house. I am currently deploying one that is a little bit more cost effective. All because of Fibre to the Home (FTTH).
I have a 8Mb/s pipe into my tiny one bedroom apartment which I share with my girlfriend. It’s uncontended and costs so little it’s quiet unimaginable. I will be deploying a noise reduced server at home (to ensure TV viewing is not effected) this evening. It’s maximum capicity is 1.5TB’s.
Off course in the essence of good security, a Cisco ASA5505 will be coming home with me 
It’s nice to see the increase in technological advancements reducing our IT costs.
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General ranting and raving about things that intreset me. Music, computer games, IT and god knows what else.
I am currently working in Page 7 Media as a Systems Manager. You can contact me by emailing brian@bkenny.com
Cormac
July 27th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Depending on which side of the Irish v US online backup debate you are on, you may find this list helpfull. It is a list of Irish online backup providers. I dont know if everyone on the list is actually backing up in Ireland. There is such a column but most of the data is yet to be filled in. I actually know some of the answers myself. I dont know if I can fill them. Would help if it was run in a wikki format and if this is the case, how is it used.
Here is the page;
http://backupanytime.com/blog/?p=91
bkenny
August 11th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Many thanks for this Cormac & apologies for the delay on getting your post up. My MX records have been muddled up since I moved to a new server and havn’t gotten around to fixing them completely yet.