Offsite backups for the rest of us?

[Ilya Palagin]

John Macdonald wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 02:32:07PM -0400, Henry Spencer wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Sy wrote:
>>
>>>I never thought about the sandbag thing.. would that actually be of real help?
>>
>>Anything that helps keep hot air and hot falling debris away from the
>>box's surface will help *some*.  Note that the other part of that
>>suggestion was "basement corner", which puts three of the box's six sides
>>against outside surfaces that have lots of thermal inertia and are likely
>>to stay relatively cool. 
> 
> 
> A basement corner also has the advantage that in most fires
> the last plave to be engulfed will be a basement corner.  So,
> as long as the fire starts in the opposite quadrant, or gets
> put out before the fire spreads badly, that is the location
> most likely to survive.
> 
Keeping backups in a basement corner is also a nice riddle for 
archeologists.
It's definitely the best place for media!
:-)
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