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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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pbuilder-dist-simple

PBUILDER-DIST-SIMPLE(1) 				      General Commands Manual					   PBUILDER-DIST-SIMPLE(1)

NAME

       pbuilder-dist-simple - simple multi-release pbuilder wrapper

SYNOPSIS

       pbuilder-<dist> operation [...]

DESCRIPTION

       pbuilder-dist-simple  is  a  wrapper  that makes it easy to use pbuilder with chroots for many different Ubuntu distributions.  If you need
       more features than pbuilder-dist-simple provides, have a look at pbuilder-dist(1).

USAGE

       Create one symlink to pbuilder-dist-simple for each distribution for which you want a build environment, naming them like "pbuilder-lucid",
       "pbuilder-natty", etc.

       Replace operation with the action you want pbuilder-dist-simple to do (create, update, build, clean, login or execute).

EXAMPLES

       pbuilder-natty create
	      Creates a pbuilder environment for Ubuntu Natty.

       pbuilder-lucid update
	      Updates an existing Ubuntu Lucid environment.

       pbuilder-lucid build ./sample_1.0-0ubuntu1.dsc
	      Builds the specified package on an already existing Ubuntu Lucid environment.

FILES

       By default, pbuilder-dist-simple will store all the files it generates in ~/pbuilder/.  This can be changed by modifying the BASE_DIR value
       on the top of the script to any other directory you want.  If the directory doesn't exit, it will be created at runtime.

SEE ALSO

       pbuilder(1), pbuilderrc(5), pbuilder-dist(1)

AUTHORS

       pbuilder-dist was originally written by Jamin W. Collins <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net> and Jordan Mantha <mantha@ubuntu.com>, and	this  man-
       page by Siegfried-A. Gevatter <rainct@ubuntu.com>.

       Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.

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