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Remember folks, offsite backups are important. My parents came home tonight to find both their computers and their backup drive stolen.

Posted by Ender (aka Ender) Jul 30 '10, 21:43

My dad's always been pretty diligent about doing backups, but it doesn't do you a whole lot of good when the backup can fall victim to the same catastrophe as the computer.

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Anything I am that concerned about, I just email to myself so it will be in my Sent email box. I have some stuff in there from as early as June 2000. -- nm - not2fast Jul 31, 00:30
also in case of fire, the backups are usually on the shelf right next or right above the computer and usually suffer the same fate as the box -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 30, 22:43
Not at all related but how the heck is your project still on 18th? I know a bunch of people vote daily and still no movement for a while. -- nm - Krusty Jul 30, 21:57 4
- I don't know. :( -- nm - Ender Jul 30, 21:58 3
  - Seriously, it's bothering me. I really wanted you to get to the top 10 by the end of the month. Do you know if it'll keep going in Aug.? -- nm - Krusty Jul 30, 22:00 2
    - I don't know yet, we'll have to see. -- nm - Ender Jul 30, 22:03 1
      - *crosses fingers* It's a worthwhile project that could be really helpful. -- nm - Krusty Jul 30, 22:05
how much does something like this cost? -- nm - sycor Jul 30, 21:45 7
- Carbonite's $55 a year, there may be cheaper options out there. - Ender Jul 30, 21:49 6
  - Even "second hard drive placed at someone else's house" would work. -- nm - Reagen Jul 30, 21:52 3
    - or just one hidden in your own house. unless there was a fire. -- nm - sycor Jul 30, 21:55 1
      - Or tornado, or flood, or any of about a dozen other things. It's better than nothing but ideally you really want it outside of the house. - Ender Jul 30, 22:03
    - True The only downside of that is that you probably wouldn't backup as often. - Ender Jul 30, 21:54
  - are there limits to what kind of stuff you can backup? like mp3s, videos etc? -- nm - sycor Jul 30, 21:49 1
    - As far as I know it doesn't by default include videos or files over 4GB in the backup but you can manually set those to be included in the automatic backup too. -- nm - Ender Jul 30, 21:52

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Remember folks, offsite backups are important. My parents came home tonight to find both their computers and their backup drive stolen.

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