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always hide your backups!
Some villains broke in through laundry window. House behind has been
vacant for 2 weeks, so they wouldn't have been seen. They grabbed my wife's laptop. She backs it up onto a 128GB thumb drive, but that was lying on table, so the scumbags took it too. BTW they also took one of those Paywave credit cards, and racked up quite a few small purchases before it was cancelled. We will not be replacing it. |
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always hide your backups!
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. -- Ed Light Better World News TV Channel: http://realnews.com Iraq Veterans Against the War and Related: http://ivaw.org http://couragetoresist.org http://antiwar.com Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. |
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always hide your backups!
BW wrote:
Some villains broke in through laundry window. House behind has been vacant for 2 weeks, so they wouldn't have been seen. They grabbed my wife's laptop. She backs it up onto a 128GB thumb drive, but that was lying on table, so the scumbags took it too. BTW they also took one of those Paywave credit cards, and racked up quite a few small purchases before it was cancelled. We will not be replacing it. Off-site backup is not a luxury, it is a requirement for any reasonable backup strategy. What happened to your wife is just one of the reasons. Arno |
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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. Solves two backup problems at once. |
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always hide your backups!
On 26 Dec 2012 11:02:54 GMT, Arno wrote:
BW wrote: Some villains broke in through laundry window. House behind has been vacant for 2 weeks, so they wouldn't have been seen. They grabbed my wife's laptop. She backs it up onto a 128GB thumb drive, but that was lying on table, so the scumbags took it too. BTW they also took one of those Paywave credit cards, and racked up quite a few small purchases before it was cancelled. We will not be replacing it. Off-site backup is not a luxury, it is a requirement for any reasonable backup strategy. What happened to your wife is just one of the reasons. But it isn't going to happen for general home users. What might make more sense for them is to have one of those safes that you can mount to the floor. Put it in an out of the way place where someone who breaks in isn't likely to see it. Then you can put a HD or thumb drive in the safe and be somewhat safe. Sure, those safes aren't going to stop a determined thief but this sounds like a theft of oppotunity and someone like that isn't going to take time to look for a safe unless they know it is there. |
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"mike" wrote in message ... 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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"shawn" wrote in message news On 26 Dec 2012 11:02:54 GMT, Arno wrote: BW wrote: Some villains broke in through laundry window. House behind has been vacant for 2 weeks, so they wouldn't have been seen. They grabbed my wife's laptop. She backs it up onto a 128GB thumb drive, but that was lying on table, so the scumbags took it too. BTW they also took one of those Paywave credit cards, and racked up quite a few small purchases before it was cancelled. We will not be replacing it. Off-site backup is not a luxury, it is a requirement for any reasonable backup strategy. What happened to your wife is just one of the reasons. But it isn't going to happen for general home users. What might make more sense for them is to have one of those safes that you can mount to the floor. Put it in an out of the way place where someone who breaks in isn't likely to see it. Then you can put a HD or thumb drive in the safe and be somewhat safe. Sure, those safes aren't going to stop a determined thief but this sounds like a theft of oppotunity and someone like that isn't going to take time to look for a safe unless they know it is there. Offsite backup kept at work or both that and a safe that's hard to find is better. |
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In article , BW wrote:
Some villains broke in through laundry window. House behind has been vacant for 2 weeks, so they wouldn't have been seen. They grabbed my wife's laptop. She backs it up onto a 128GB thumb drive, but that was lying on table, so the scumbags took it too. BTW they also took one of those Paywave credit cards, and racked up quite a few small purchases before it was cancelled. We will not be replacing it. This is why i own an AR-15 |
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always hide your backups!
shawn wrote:
On 26 Dec 2012 11:02:54 GMT, Arno wrote: Off-site backup is not a luxury, it is a requirement for any reasonable backup strategy. What happened to your wife is just one of the reasons. But it isn't going to happen for general home users. What might make more sense for them is to have one of those safes that you can mount to the floor. Put it in an out of the way place where someone who breaks in isn't likely to see it. Then you can put a HD or thumb drive in the safe and be somewhat safe. Sure, those safes aren't going to stop a determined thief but this sounds like a theft of oppotunity and someone like that isn't going to take time to look for a safe unless they know it is there. It is not that hard. If you have a locker or other lockable container somwehere (gym, club, work), that is already enough. Just get 2-3 cheap USB HDDs and rotate them. Arno |
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On 12/26/2012 10:08 AM, GMAN wrote:
In , wrote: Some villains broke in through laundry window. House behind has been vacant for 2 weeks, so they wouldn't have been seen. They grabbed my wife's laptop. She backs it up onto a 128GB thumb drive, but that was lying on table, so the scumbags took it too. BTW they also took one of those Paywave credit cards, and racked up quite a few small purchases before it was cancelled. We will not be replacing it. This is why i own an AR-15 Not clear how that helps you back up your system. And if you had owned an AR-15, you wouldn't own one after they stole it. |
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