[GTALUG] Portable Backup Drive Compatible with Linux (and Recommended Backup Software)

[Steve Petrie, P.Eng.]

Please see below.

Steve

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Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2017 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Portable Backup Drive Compatible with Linux (and 
Recommended Backup Software)


> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017, at 11:01, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote:
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>> 6. Includes a custom-designed and compact, easily-attached retro-fit
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>> "grip" for the portable HDD, the grip eliminates all cable
>> strain on the
>> USB-A connector, yet is small enough so that the portable HDD,
>> together
>> with the grip and coiled USB-A-to-USB-C cable, still all easily
>> fit into
>> a small Canada Post P.O. box at any Postal Outlet. (Although the fine
>> print in the CP P.O. Box rental contract, specifically excludes box
>> use
>> for "storage". I have never had any problems with my local Postal
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>> Outlet, over my storing backup media in the box.)
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> Interesting idea to store a backup in a postal outlet.
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Not a very good idea, I must admit.

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>> My thinking for this USB HDD docking station design is, once my new
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>> debian Linux PC is operational, to consider developing the docking
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>> station as a saleable product, likely through a crowd-funded
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>> premium-based financing model, where the premium will be a
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>> deeply-discounted early-release model of the docking station.
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> I hope you'll announce any eventual financing campaign on the list!
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I'm kind of hoping for a backup dock "magic bullet" to come flying at me 
from GTALUG, so I won't have to actually develop a new dock.

If I do decide that there's no other satisfactory backup dock solution, 
then certainly GTALUG will be the first to know about any crowd-funded 
initiative. It's GTALUG after all, who are responsible for sparking the 
idea, in the first place :)

I'm thinking of open-sourcing any dock device design anyway, so if I do 
open source it, I would share it with GTALUG.

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