[Klug-general] Backup drive

Colin McCarthy binarysignal at gmail.com
Sat Oct 19 16:21:42 UTC 2013


SpiderOak.com is another good service with Linux support. Though it has no
password recovery option so if you forget that you lose your data. They do
that so even they can't access your data which they say makes it 100%
secure.

Sent from my Android phone, please ignore any tiping mistooks
On Oct 19, 2013 10:03 AM, "Karl Buckland" <buckland.karl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Alternatively, look at using an online backup service. That way, hard
> drive failure, theft or even a fire won't cause me to lose my data. I use
> Crashplan which runs as a service just fine on Ubuntu.
>
> Karl
>
>
> On 19 October 2013 14:32, James Morris <jwm.art.net at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Cheap and cheerful, around £50 for 1tb? External?
>>
>> James.
>>
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