[GTALUG] Data backup recommendations?
James Knott
james.knott at jknott.net
Sat Apr 25 14:10:09 EDT 2020
On 2020-04-25 02:02 PM, Howard Gibson via talk wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 22:18:33 -0400
> Gron Arthur via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>
>> I have a backup drive, but I'm thinking it would be better to store
>> personal files at a second location. About 200-300GB in total.
> Gron Arthur,
>
> If my house and all around it is utterly destroyed, I lose all my data. Short of that, I should be okay. I could stores my backup Blu-Rays in a bank vault. It is too bad the local bank brances are not open.
>
> How about switching between a pair of 4TB USB drives? They live at the alternate location. One comes home to do the backup. The other stays in the outside place.
>
I remember backing up to floppies! ;-)
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