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

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Ted Gould <ted@gould.cx> wrote:

>
> Okay, thumb drives are getting cheap, and I'm curious from a data
> retention perspective if they're a good backup medium.  I'm worried that
> they're slow, but I think that isn't as too much of an issue in my
> situation.
>
> What I like to do is take the occasional backup and put it in my safety
> deposit box for safe keeping.  Currently, I can fit everything on a DVD
> which makes that possible (well, everything but pictures/media) but I'm
> getting close to that not being an option.  I'm thinking that if I
> bought two 8GB flash drives that'd fit the bill.  But, since the point
> of back up is to restore, I was curious what people thought of my
> chances there.
>
>        Thanks,
>                 Ted
>
>
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