I've been looking at various different options for backuping my main web server. I need 500GB+ of backup. I feel the easiest/most robust option is just to have a second server (owned by a different company, in a different datacentre...) that I rsync everything to every day?
This also actually seems to be the cheapest option (for 1TB of space) as well. Ordered a kimsufi server for €9.99/month last night. It's weak on memory & cpu compared to my main box, but obviously I don't need those things.
This also gives me the option of falling over to that server entirely if I have a catastrophic failure on my current box.
I feel most people go for a "cloud" option for their backup. Am I missing a trick?
I suppose one thing I need to be careful of is if some bad code (malicious or just buggy) removes/screws my sites on box 1, I need to make sure those changes aren't replicated to box 2 before I get to fix it...