off-site backup plan

[Matt Graham]

From: "Dorian Monroe" <dorian.monroe at cox.net>
> I don't understand how anyone could consider RAID a "backup" plan.
> 'Cause it's not.  

RAID-1 with a hot spare, where you periodically deactivate the spare,
then slap a new spare in, then take the old spare and put it 
somewhere else, could be used as a backup.  I believe they were
referring to that method, since Alex said he was thinking about
doing that in the message that started this thread.

FWIW, the every-week connect+rsync of a USB2 drive and ~120G of data
approach that I'm using takes about 5 minutes wall-clock and 30
seconds of plugging/unplugging and typing 2 commands.

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