On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 08:23:56AM -0800, Tom Perrine wrote: > With all those drives, you might want to think about using them for > CrashPlan for your relatives. CrashPlan lets you exchange off site > back up services with another person. Become "backup buddies" as it > were. > > One scenario - my friend and I each buy similar disks of similar > capacity and attach them to our computers. We've both invested the > same amount... Then we designate each others' PCs as our backup > target in CrashPlan (which is free). Backups are generated on each of > our computers, encrypted locally with keys that we have, and sent to > the other person's computer and placed on the backup volumes.
Great suggestion. I do that with a friend and it works great. I backup locally for performance and to his drive for off-site bunkering. It's free, too. -j _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
