On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 06:13:00PM -0700, Keith Thompson wrote: > [email protected] (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes: > > I am not sure if USB sticks alone are better than online systems. I > > would like to be sure that I wouldn't lose my data if I lost my > > pendrive or if something bad happened to my house. This is why I am > > looking for some place to keep my data in a different geographical > > location, preferably in a different city to be more > > secure. External hard drives are good but not reliable enough in my > > opinion. External drives accompanied by securely encrypted online > > backup would be OK though but only one of these two is not enough. > > > > If something would happen to your house, you have far more important > > things to worry about than a few random bits.
Or I would say "yet another thing to worry about" > Yes, almost certainly other things would be more important than > your data. That doesn't imply that your data is unimportant and > not worth protecting. > > That's the whole point of off-site backups. > > And things could happen to damage all your in-house data (say, a power > surge while your backup drive happens to be plugged in to your computer) > without destroying the house. > This is also a good example and it represents my point of view. What free software based solution would you recommend for such backup? Is FTP in practice the only option? _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
