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I'm sure that they are reasonable and I would not wish to disparage or defame them in any way, especially not in a slanderous way. I have no experience of them.

The question you need to ask yourself is:-

If they were to be attacked and your data copied and/or deleted, would that be a problem?

So, when you break it down further:-

Is it commercially sensitive?
It is personally sensitive? - e.g. customer details
Is it critical to your recovery processes?

These are the things you should consider first. If your data falls into any of these, then I would suggests you need to arrange a paid-for contract with a supplier and store real media with your own encryption and practice the recovery process.

This last point is very important. Imagine assuring the regulator/auditors/government/whomever for years that the backups are all fine only to find that you can't actually restore.

I hope that this gives you something to consider.

Like I said at the beginning, I have no experience of the companies you mention and do not wish this to be considered as defaming or slanderous in any way, but YOU are responsible for your data so you have to consider the risks you might be exposing yourself to, even if these are reputable companies.

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germinate-pkg-diff

GERMINATE-PKG-DIFF(1)					  Ubuntu General Commands Manual				     GERMINATE-PKG-DIFF(1)

NAME

     germinate-pkg-diff -- compare seeds against currently installed packages

SYNOPSIS

     germinate-pkg-diff [-l file] [-m {i|r|d}] [-a arch] [seeds]

DESCRIPTION

     germinate-pkg-diff compares the expansion of a list of seed packages against the set of packages installed on the current system.	When con-
     structing seeds for a software distribution, it can be used to iteratively find packages installed on developers' systems that should be
     included in the seeds.

     A list of seeds against which to compare may be supplied as non-option arguments.	Seeds from which they inherit will be added automatically.
     The default is 'desktop'.

OPTIONS

     -l, --list file
	   Read the list of currently installed packages from file.  The default is to read the output of dpkg --get-selections, and any supplied
	   file should be in the same format.

     -m, --mode {i|r|d}
	   Set the output mode as follows:

	   i	 Show the dpkg selections needed to install just these seeds.  List unseeded but installed files as ``deinstall'', and seeded but
		 uninstalled files as ``install''.

	   r	 List unseeded but installed files as ``install'', and seeded but uninstalled files as ``deinstall''.

	   d	 Show the differences between the packages specified by the seeds and the list of installed packages, in a somewhat diff-like for-
		 mat.

     -S, --seed-source source,...
	   Fetch seeds from the specified sources.  The default is http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/seeds/.

     -s, --seed-dist dist
	   Fetch seeds for distribution dist.  The default is ubuntu.precise.

     -d, --dist dist,...
	   Operate on the specified distributions.  The default is precise.  Listing multiple distributions may be useful, for example, when exam-
	   ining both a released distribution and its security updates.

     -a, --arch arch
	   Operate on architecture arch.  The default is i386.

BUGS

     --mode r is useless as dpkg --set-selections input.

AUTHORS

     Lamont Jones <lamont@ubuntu.com>
     Colin Watson <cjwatson@canonical.com>

     germinate-pkg-diff is copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Canonical Ltd.  See the GNU General Public License version 2 or later for
     copying conditions.  A copy of the GNU General Public License is available in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

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