These are good answers and good questions, and helps shift a little of the burder off me, lol.

I am researching this as well as one of my expert friends (who knows everything about networking and very little about SQL) was wondering how well it backed up SQL databases.

It is mostly a block by block comparison backup. My friend also mentioned a couple of other places, one of which is Iron Mountain, and I am looking into that.

One things is clear. It is not looking at the 1GB (for example) database and saying "a file changed there, but we can't back up that granular, so we will need to say the database file needs to be backed up." Reason being is during my tests, it only uploaded three files. It starts to get past me, but even though it is only one file, God knows it if it needs one bit of metadata or if one of my emails counted.

Another place recommended was sysform.com which is a lot like a P2P in that it takes your hard drive space and uses it offline. Don't ask me. I read through it once.

Another thing is certain. As I will talk about at the conference and, hopefully, Indy will correct me when I am way off base, is that more than one backup is good for redundancy and for the variability. If I have a Acronis or Windows SBS 2008 image backup or a file by file backup sitting on an external 1TB eSATA drive, I am going to grab that before one online. It's just good to know for $5.00 per month that all of my data is protected online as well. (Encrypted)

I do know that Iron Mountain supposedly does a bit by bit instead of file by file, which is getting pretty damned granular. I would say the bit (1/8th of a byte) is like talking about the atom.

Bert
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