[PLUG-TALK] Back Up Medium Change

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Larry Williams wrote:

> I've been using a couple solutions for my personal system: I use BackupPC
> to a dedicated USB drive, which I expect to replace in three years.

Larry,

   Software is not an issue. I can point bru at any block device and it will
write to it (and read it back when necessary).

> also use an online service, 4shared.com.  Their mountable webdav service
> give me 10 gigs free, so I just manually move those things that I'd like
> to keep on a more permanent basis.  When I reach 4 gigs stored on 4shared
> I'll burn it to a couple DVDs (stored in two different places, of course).

   First, I won't put any of my data on an external server. Second, I have
37G (uncompressed) which apparently will no longer compress to < 60G since
bru asked for a second tape this morning.

   I see that ENU has some huge drives for very moderate prices; I need to
learn if SATA (or SATA2) will work in a USB external enclosure.

> Now if I can just remember which two places I designated.

   Ah, that just adds to your data security! :-)

Thanks,

Rich