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Offsite storage

Offsite storage

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Offsite storage

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- Offsite storage is an important component of the backup strategy. It protects the working volume and its backup onsite from disaster. Let's take a look at what can go into a backup strategy. The backup can be as simple as a single hard drive. If you have protected storage for your working drive, you could have just a single drive as its backup and another single drive offsite. Ideally, you'd have protected storage in all three. Sometimes, financially, that's not possible. When you move from single drives to protected storage, remember we're talking either a RAID 1, which is a mirrored storage, or a RAID 5. Offsite backup can also be as simple as taking a hard drive copy and driving it to a safe location. It could be a safe deposit box in a bank, it could be your parent's house, it could be a friend's house. Just someplace that's not located really close to your working studio environment. It's also possible to have an internet connected device, like a RAID 5 or a RAID 1, that backs…

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