On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Richard C. Steffens wrote:

> My wife and I are interested in adding a device that will function as a
> place to put backups that is not on either of our regularly used
> machines. It has to be able to be used by whatever version of Linux I'm
> using, plus XP and Win7.

> Am I missing anything here?

   As recently as a couple of weeks ago OfficeMax was clearing out 3T
external hard drives for about $150. These run on USB connectors (version 2
or 3) and you can copy data to them using rsync, cp, or whatever works on
windoze. You can keep them unplugged (or turned off) until needed.

Rich

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