Backup to Thumb Drive

[James Finstrom]

I would say cheap thumb drives are a bad idea. I would also have an
alternitive. I have seen some of these low end thumb drives corrupt if you
breath on them. The secret thus far has been to write the data, verify then
write protect the device. We use thumb drives for Kickstarts and production
scripting, I have thrown away all the cheap thumb drives without write
protection and have replaced them with thumb drives with a write protect
switch. This has reduced the need to recreate corrupted drives. I would
recomend a thumbdrive and ftp backuo scheme. It is always good to backup off
site incase of fire or federal confiscation (just kidding)



James Finstrom
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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
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Ted Gould <ted at 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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