always hide your backups!
"mike" wrote in message
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On 12/26/2012 1:36 AM, Ed Light wrote:
Safe deposit boxes are pretty cheap for backups on a HD.
You can take the drive out once a month and update it from your local
backups using a mirroring program.
If you're managing the launch codes, sure, do whatever it takes.
For most of us, a safe deposit box is not a solution.
Do you really expect joe sixpack to take off work during banking
hours and drive across town to swap drives in his SD box?
For mirroring, you need two trips to the bank and you're exposed
for all the time you have the drives in the same place.
A backup strategy is only as good as your motivation to use it.
A much simpler system might be to swap flash drives or hard drives with a
neighbor
or a colleague from work or a friend from the gym
on a regular basis.
Or just between your home and your work.
Solves two backup problems at once.
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