Offsite backups for the rest of us?

Peter plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org
Tue Apr 12 09:16:07 UTC 2005


On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, James Knott wrote:

> Fire safes are rated according to the length of time they can keep 
> temperatures low enough to prevent damage.  How long is the relevant 
> question.

No, how low is the question in this case. Paper will not mind 150C for a 
few tens of minutes. Do that with a cdrom or tape for one minute and 
it's history. Incidentally, hard disks should be able to take 150C for 
some time (on your responsability).

Peter
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