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Originally Posted by wodin
The REALLY big guys (US Government) have a concept called Contingency Of Operations (COOP) where they replicate the entire data center at a remote location. This must be, by regulation, more than 50 miles away, and is usually thousands of miles. E.g. Hawaii and Alaska. These are fully capable of carrying the entire load for both regions, and if either region suffers a catastrophic failure, the whole system automatically fails over to the remaining one.
A little out of scope for my home PC, but completely doable if I have multiple computers on my home network. I have my desktop system, my wife's notebook, and my netbook. Most of my data is on all three, and just in case the house goes away I have Carbonite.
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You're right, Wodin. But for most individuals, the logistics of far off-site storage becomes daunting. That's why I use a safe deposit box. You get a double thickness Faraday cage that way (for emf pulse), far enough away for fire, and some windstorm protection. (The F3+ tornado has to hit both house and bank) I don't like to put my back-up at economic risk, so I'm leery of services like Carbonite; but that's to taste....