What’s your church’s backup plan?
Please tell me you have one?
There are numerous options and I won’t bore you with them – but one of the newer ideas around is cloud based backup. As in you copy your data to a remote data centre and let them worry about servers, resilience, cooling and all the other headaches that come with running a data centre.
However, who says you have to trust an unknown third party with your data?
So, if you’re happy that your backup plan actually works then why not find another local(ish) church and do a deal to put a server in their data room and let them do the same in yours. Then setup your server / software to copy the data offsite and voila you have a secure, offsite backup server.
- Is this something you’d do?
- Or is my idea too radical?
- What’s your cheap, offsite & secure solution?
I think that sounds like a great idea! Hopefully churches have a good enough relationship with just one other church to be able to trust them with the information.
Well the good thing about this is that you don't really need trust as you supply the hardware and configure it, secure it, etc – it's just hosted elsewhere.