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 Rhino Equipment Corp. http://rhinoequipment.com ~ http://postug.com Sometimes for it to "just work" you have to think outside the box! Phone: 1-877-RHINO-T1 ~ FAX: +1 (480) 961-1826 IP: guest@asterisk.rhinoequipment.com On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Eric Cope 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 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 >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> 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 >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 >