I would ask, what is the backup sites stake in it? That is,
if you lose your critical backup data, what does the vendor
lose? If it's not comparable, and if it doesn't actually
compensate you for your loss, than I wouldn't touch it
myself. Perhaps others would do so. I can (barely)
imagine corporate entities doing it with sufficient
guarantees. But if I were in the business myself (heaven
forbid), I'd charge that much more for the bond. Seems
to me unless the scale were very large, or you were willing
to kiss off your valuable data if the vendor crashed,
went broke, went to mexico, lost his system programmer,
etc., etc., then the cost for an individual would be
prohibitive. This doesn't begin to mention the possibilites
for compromise of private data.
BWDIK?
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