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You can't trust anyone completely - The Channel Wire - IT Channel News And Views by CRN and VARBusiness

I just got off the phone with a client discussing remote backup options. We've all heard the Carbonite ads on the radio, right?

What I told him was that remote backup is an important adjunct to backups done locally. The key point to understand is that you don't ever trust anyone completely with your data. The data breach at Google is a good example of why not. The paradigm at Google lends itself to data breach. It's all about sharing, so it's easier to have a problem. The paradigm at remote backup companies is all about security, not sharing, so I think a breach is much less likely. But not impossible. And no company is too big to fail. Just ask Lehman Brothers, GM, at al.

So choose your remote backup company wisely, do local backups AND archival DVD's that go in the safe deposit box for ultimate protection. Protect your protection by using multiple technologies, but keep it as simple as possible or you won't do it consistently.

No matter what your final plan is backup, backup, backup.