Please see below.
Steve
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From: "znoteer--- via talk" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2017 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Portable Backup Drive Compatible with Linux (and
Recommended Backup Software)
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017, at 11:01, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote:
6. Includes a custom-designed and compact, easily-attached retro-fit
"grip" for the portable HDD, the grip eliminates all cable
strain on the
USB-A connector, yet is small enough so that the portable HDD,
together
with the grip and coiled USB-A-to-USB-C cable, still all easily
fit into
a small Canada Post P.O. box at any Postal Outlet. (Although the fine
print in the CP P.O. Box rental contract, specifically excludes box
use
for "storage". I have never had any problems with my local Postal
Outlet, over my storing backup media in the box.)
Interesting idea to store a backup in a postal outlet.
Not a very good idea, I must admit.
My thinking for this USB HDD docking station design is, once my new
debian Linux PC is operational, to consider developing the docking
station as a saleable product, likely through a crowd-funded
premium-based financing model, where the premium will be a
deeply-discounted early-release model of the docking station.
I hope you'll announce any eventual financing campaign on the list!
I'm kind of hoping for a backup dock "magic bullet" to come flying at me
from GTALUG, so I won't have to actually develop a new dock.
If I do decide that there's no other satisfactory backup dock solution,
then certainly GTALUG will be the first to know about any crowd-funded
initiative. It's GTALUG after all, who are responsible for sparking the
idea, in the first place :)
I'm thinking of open-sourcing any dock device design anyway, so if I do
open source it, I would share it with GTALUG.
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