[OPLINTECH] Off-site backup

[Technology Coordinator]

Phil,

I agree with Chad on the backup strategy. We have two branches so they
backup locally and then to each other over a point to point fiber
connection.

If you don't have an old server that can do RAID looking into a NAS
https://www.synology.com/en-us/solution/business_continuity and picking a
RAID 5 chassis may suit your needs. An example is
https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS3018xs which is pretty scalable.
Even has some nice software that comes with it.

Or UrBackup is pretty simple to set up and use. If you're a multi-branch
library, you could simply set up a UrBackup server in a branch and back up
off-site between branches over a VPN. That's essentially what I'm doing.
You just need an old server with a decent amount of RAM and lots of
(preferably redundant) storage. (If you're familiar with Linux, I'd make it
a linux server.)

Best of luck,
Mark

Mark Sanzotta | Technology Coordinator

Ashtabula County District Library

4335 Park Ave, Ashtabula, OH 44004

440.990.2339 (office)

Ashtabula Branch 440.997.9341 | Geneva Branch 440.466.4521

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Gather, Read, Discover, Transform


On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 4:24 PM Chad Neeper via OPLINTECH <
oplintech at lists.oplin.org> wrote:

> As a convenience to my clients, I automatically do nightly backups of my
> libraries' Windows and linux servers to my own UrBackup
> <https://www.urbackup.org/> server on a "best-effort" basis free of
> charge. I started doing that years ago for my own convenience and peace of
> mind because I simply couldn't trust that the staff at the individual
> libraries were getting regular successful backups. To this day, I don't
> charge for the service and always tell them it's best effort, but I do pay
> a lot of frequent attention to it to make sure it's reliable and
> working properly! Plus, these days, 99 times out of 100 it's the only
> backup that each library is getting. Most of their individual backups have
> long since fallen along the wayside and aren't happening any longer since
> mine is more reliable and I keep tabs on it frequently to know if someone
> isn't getting a regular back for some reason. They get what they pay for,
> though:  I don't run a maximum security data center in some
> nondescript building in the middle of nowhere.
>
> But that doesn't help you much. Sorry.
>
> If you're interested in a super cheap cloud-based backup that's open
> source, but very manual right now, you could look into blockchain based
> Sia <https://sia.tech>. It works, but is probably too bleeding edge for
> you, though.
>
> Or UrBackup is pretty simple to set up and use. If you're a multi-branch
> library, you could simply set up a UrBackup server in a branch and back up
> off-site between branches over a VPN. That's essentially what I'm doing.
> You just need an old server with a decent amount of RAM and lots of
> (preferably redundant) storage. (If you're familiar with Linux, I'd make it
> a linux server.)
>
> Food for thought,
> Chad
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> On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 3:43 PM Phil Shirley via OPLINTECH <
> oplintech at lists.oplin.org> wrote:
>
>> What do you use for off-site backup? We back up to NAS and then copy from
>> there to RDX cartridges (in a 3-week rotation) which we take home. I was
>> wondering about doing something cloud-based.
>>
>> Phil
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