Paul, All, On Wed January 14 2009, Mike McCarty wrote: ] IMO, this is an inadequate strategy. Backup media need to be stored ] off-site. Certainly, your external drive needs to remain
Paul Cartwright <a...@pcartwright.com>: ] I only plug it in to do backups. The rest of the time it is unplugged ] and away from the regualr PC. I have an UPS and 2 surge protectors ] between all my PC stuff and any electrical outlet. This IS a home ] system, and I don't really have access to an off-site storage ] facility... This thread has helped broaden my thinking on personal backups. I'd not previously considered a big USB drive as a solution. But now I may figure it into my personal mix. Myself, I've got under a gigabyte of /really/ vital stuff that I back up daily. I use unison(1), and I've got replicas of (the really vital stuff on) my home desktop system: o on my second home desktop system, o on my laptop, o and up at my ISP, two towns over. As for stuff that I don't want to lose but that's not really vital, I'm currently burning that to disc and storing it in boxes at home like a number of other folks seem to be doing. Regarding off-site backups, I've got a buddy whose strategy is to keep one external USB drive at home and one in his safe deposit box at his local bank. He backs his desktop system up to the home USB drive periodically, and every month or so he visits his safe deposit box, swapping the two drives. He's a very bright guy; he came up with this idea even though he's using Windows. (-: Cheers, Eric -- "A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea. --John Ciardi Eric De Mund | Ixian Systems | Jab: eadix...@jabber.org/main e...@ixian.com | 650 Castro St, #120-210 | Y!M: ead0002 ixian.com/ead/ | Mountain View, CA 94041 | ICQ: 811788 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
