Small business backups solutions?

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Tuesday 05 February 2008 13:14, Alex Hewitt wrote:
> overnight and when they come to work they run a small script which
> transfers the backup to the removable hard drive. They take it with them
> when they leave at the end of the day. These drives although reasonably
> rugged can't take a drop while they're spinning. Furthermore I've had

Unless they've got a rotation of several drives, this is a worthless as an 
off-site backups scenario.  If they go next door for lunch during the day and 
a fire erupts, who will get the drive?  It's unreasonable to think they won't 
leave it at their desk and it's a bad idea to leave it in the car on a very 
hot or cold day.

In order for off-site backups to work, you need at least 3 copies (perhaps of 
varying dates) of the data to ensure that both of two copies are not in the 
same place at once.
-N