[GTALUG] Data backup recommendations?

[Gron Arthur]

I sort of do that now. I have a drive that I leave at a friend's
place.  But, it's not that convenient so;I don't end up backing up my
data often enough and, now with social distancing I don't want to be
dropping by people.

On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 2:10 PM James Knott via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>
> 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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