Recently I came across this tweet from Ross L. Kodner and he brought up a good point – one of the benefits of an online backup is having your data safe and sound.
If you live in a city that is prone to earthquakes, hurricanes, etc., it kind of defeats the purpose to have your online backup residing in the same city as you.
To that end, I have put this list together of where common online backup vendors have their data centers. Not surprisingly, none of them were willing to give this information on request so this is mainly pieced together from some Google-fu. Therefore, I can’t 100% say for sure that it is accurate, but you get the general idea.
Here is the list:
- Salt Lake City
- Dublin
- (likely other EMC data centers)
- Boston
- Beijing
Jungle Disk (S3)/Dropbox
Jungle Disk and Dropbox both use Amazon’s S3 service. While Amazon generally does not disclose where their data centers are, the following are the edge locations for CloudFront, their CDN, so it stands to reason that S3 data is stored there too.
United States
- Ashburn, VA
- Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
- Los Angeles, CA
- Miami, FL
- Newark, NJ
- Palo Alto, CA
- Seattle, WA
- St. Louis, MO
Europe
- Amsterdam
- Frankfurt
- Dublin
- London
Asia
- Hong Kong
- Tokyo
Jungle Disk (Rackspace)
Since Jungle Disk was acquired by Rackspace, they have started offering storage in Rackspace’s data center too.
- Grapevine, TX
- London
- Hong Kong
- Chicago
Like I said, this list is likely incomplete. If you have any additions or modifications, leave a comment below.
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It might be quite misleading here. Some companies have multiple data centers, but it doesn't mean these data centers are used for redundancy.
The problem with consumer types of services like $50/year for unlimited data backup, you cannot really expect that they backup data across different data centers. The cost associated with that makes it completely impossible.
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Thanks for the post about DriveHQ. I wasn't familiar with the service. Thanks!