On 12 Nov 2014, at 07:58, Chris Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> You also need an offsite strategy in case the Big Bad Wolf blows your house >> down. >> >> You could shuffle a couple of backup drives between home and work once a >> week, but this relies on you having the discipline to do it, and has the >> weakness that at some point both backups are in the same place for a day, >> and therefore a temptation for the BBW. > > Ah, you take the second drive to the backup location first so you've > still got the files on your computers in the primary location. > >> >> Or you could get some cloud storage and let your data trickle-feed up to >> there. If you have cloud storage then you don't need your backup external >> drive. > > You just need to think about how well and how long cloud services will > look after your data. I've already lost a service that told me it > would look after notes for ever. I managed to download everything > before it went away, but it was a near miss. >> Yes, I'm not suggesting they should be your only copy. Keep a copy at home too. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
