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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I use a usb enclosure on a hard drive and keep
in a magnetic media fire safe on my desk.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The cons are: usb is slow and the fire safe
was quite pricey (from Staples).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My feeling is that it's best to have a multi-way
backup regime.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So: on the base unit the second hd is used for
backup on a one letter alias (to rsync)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>then the usb drive whenever I think of
it.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Add the cloud and anything that loses your data
probably means you're dead too.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tom</FONT></DIV>
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<A href="mailto:jwm.art.net@gmail.com" title=jwm.art.net@gmail.com>James
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:kent@mailman.lug.org.uk" title=kent@mailman.lug.org.uk>Kent Linux
User Group - General Topics</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, October 19, 2013 2:32
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Klug-general] Backup
drive</DIV>
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<DIV>Just had a HDD fail on me which is still under warranty so hope will get
replaced but am considering getting a backup drive for that 10% of data which
might be worth backing up.<BR><BR>An internal backup drive would be the third
HDD in my machine and things might get a bit too toasty in there. Wondering
about an external drive which doesn't need to be plugged in consuming
power?<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Cheap and cheerful, around £50 for 1tb? External?<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV>James.<BR><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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