On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Matt Graham 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 > > -- > Matt G / Dances With Crows > The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ > There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >