Re: Suggestions for a reliable Cloud backup solution

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows@usa.net>wrote:

> > Bob Elzer wrote:
> >> Buy a 1TB External usb/Esata and name it Cloud.
> >> Then it is still always accessible.
>
> Until you realize you left it on your desk 15 miles away. Physical disks
> still need to be hooked up to something. I'm wondering when somebody will
> hook a tiny embedded NFS/Samba/webmin box to a disk to a wireless card to a
> wall wart, then market the resulting brickage as "wireless disks for home
> and
> office use"....
>
> From: Eric Cope
> > buy at least 2 1TB external drives, preferably from different companies
> > and hope the MTBF is different :)
>
> Did that with 250G disks, and it appears to be working so far.


> Paul Mooring wrote:
> > Don't forget to get a safety deposit box and rotate which was is
> > store in a safe physical location weekly.
>
> If you visit your safe deposit box more than N times/year, the bank charges
> you $M per visit. This is suboptimal. Cheaper option is to encrypt the
> disks, meet a friend every week, and swap encrypted disks, so you've got
> your
> stuff in your friend's offsite location and he's got his disk at your
> place.
> (This fails in case of Godzilla, enormous meteorites, or if your friend
> works
> for the NSA.)
>

that's what Crashplan does for you, without the meet every week. its 448
bit encrypted. You each share with each other. And its free to boot.

Eric



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