[LINK] offsite backup servers

[Roger Clarke]

I flicked the thread on to a mate who works in the business.  He 
responded as follows:

>From: "Kevin Jeffery" <kevin.jeffery at soliddata.com.au>
>To: "'Roger Clarke'" <Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au>
>Subject: RE: [Spam?]Fwd: Re: [LINK] offsite backup servers
>Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 11:19:48 +1000
>
>Let them know about:
>
>Software than you can run to send backups to an ftp site:
>I recommend Cobian Backup: http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm
>as it is free and also it has been very reliable for my clients (as an
>additional redundancy to our online backups.  Cobian has encryption,
>compression, and lots of settings for your backup system (incrementals,
>diffs, fulls-every-x-backups etc)
>
>Free online backups are very limited as they don't tend to have automation
>built in, but you could combine Cobian with your own FTP site to achieve it.
>
>I disagree to skip the encryption as the comment about people reading your
>hard drive is a bit too flippant.
>
>You are not going to get it much cheaper than the $5 plan, especially in
>Australia.
>
>Kevin Jeffery
>Managing Director
>Solid Data Corporation
>Secure online backups encrypted and stored in Canberra
>http://www.soliddata.com.au

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