At 9:17 AM -0800 11/29/2011, [email protected] wrote:
> A better idea is to have several external HDs, and rotate them off
site now and then. The 'ole sock-drawer method.
The drive docking stations which are now available, make this easy
If you can control the use of the drives and the way they're
transported and stored, then bare drives are fine, and can be a good
cost savings. Otherwise, cases offer a critical layer of physical
and electrical protection!
I have a docking station like the ones you urld, on my desk. Works
great! Had to make a little flappy cardboard lid for it tho - so the
hole is covered when it's empty. That way dust and such doesn't get
in there.
Get a safe deposit box. You ought to have one anyway. If it's
small, use 2.5" drives, which the docks above also support.
Rotate one set of backups out to the safe deposit box on some kind
of schedule.
An inexpensive fireproof box at a friend's or employee's is a lot
less painful to access, and perhaps better than sock-drawer,generic
space.
I keep thinking about setting up a bank of BD-R drives
I don't trust burned optical media much. :\
I do full backups and incrementals to HD. Now and then I burn off
some user data to DVD+RW, in duplicate. Rotated, etc. And now I
have some stuff stashed in Amazon's S3 cloud, in encrypted dmgs (done
with Dropbox).
- Dan.
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