I do miss my little 3 TB seagate that I rsync'ed from home to my office. That said, what if someone broke into our little office (encrypted backup of course)?
The reality though is that no business would be comfortable with the plan being "our data is replicated offsite at Steve's house". And, other than maybe a pair of NAS boxes (one at each end) the cheapness of the solution assumes you have a great network connection between the two, a machine to plug it into, and only need a single hard drive. That is, how would you do offsite, active backup of say 50 TB?
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and do offsite backup to GCS Nearline, that I'll move to Coldline when I get a minute to play with our new per-object lifecycle rules).
The reality though is that no business would be comfortable with the plan being "our data is replicated offsite at Steve's house". And, other than maybe a pair of NAS boxes (one at each end) the cheapness of the solution assumes you have a great network connection between the two, a machine to plug it into, and only need a single hard drive. That is, how would you do offsite, active backup of say 50 TB?
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and do offsite backup to GCS Nearline, that I'll move to Coldline when I get a minute to play with our new per-object lifecycle rules).