From: Alex Dean > Now, I'm trying to make a plan for those backups to survive the > house burning down or some other total catastrophe. I don't want > to lose 10 years of digital photos in an emergency like that, and > pushing all this data over my internet connection isn't feasible. 2 USB2 drives of sufficient size, rsync, and a friend who lives at least a mile or 2 away. rsync the dirs containing backups of the important junk to the USB drives. Give one drive to the friend, keep the other at home. Every few days, rsync the drive you have at home, then swap that drive with the drive your friend has. That way, you lose at most a few days of data if your house burns down. No net connection needed. All you need is a friend you see regularly, or a secure storage locker you can get to every week. Note that this might be difficult or expensive if you have more than 2T of data to back up. You can also use dm-crypt on the backup USB drives for additional security. -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss