Backup to Thumb Drive

Dan Lund situationalawareness at gmail.com
Mon Nov 3 08:16:26 MST 2008


I'd definitely have to side with the external hard drive scenario.
While USB thumbdrives are real nice for the size they have a limited
lifespan and can lose data much easier than a hard drive from
electromagnetic interference.

I still prefer Linus Torvalds' quote, "Only wimps use tape backup:
_real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest
of the world mirror it ;)"
lol

Thanks,
Dan Lund

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so
many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled -
because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too
cowardly to exercise it.  The virtues which cloak these faults are
called patience and forbearance.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Eric Cope <eric.cope at gmail.com> wrote:
> A friend of mine uses external hard drives for this same scenario. He backs
> up to the external drives and places them in safety deposit boxes. The space
> is less limiting as well.
> Eric


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