[Discuss] Off Site Backup

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-08-28 15:07-0700 pw wrote:

> Peter Scott wrote:
>
>>> Why don't you put a box with a terabyte RAID in a basement closet
>>> in your home? That's off site. Presumably you have locks on your doors.
>>> Encrypt the data if you're really worried.
>> 
>> Yikes, that's not a risk I would want to take.  Not without the law firm 
>> signing an indemnification agreement that was approved by another law 
>> firm.  If anything went wrong they could sue you forever just as a hobby. 
>> Might not be covered under your liability policy.
>> 
>
> What's the difference if bandits break in to your office, your network,
> or your home. Provided that all possible measures are taken to protect
> the data, your still liable to some extent.
>
> Is having someone else responsible for the security of your own data
> a more secure option? Just more people in the insecure chain...


I can see both sides here.  PS is (probably correctly it is sad to say)
concerned about covering himself against potential litigation while PW
is probably correct that _actual_ security would probably be better served
by do-it-yourself backup solutions.

This conversation strikes me as a paradigm of what is wrong with business
these days.  Too much litigation (or threats of same or worry about same),
too little actual work getting done.  I don't know what the solution is
except the Shakespearean one (http://www.spectacle.org/797/finkel.html). :-)

Alan
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