[PLUG-TALK] Back Up Medium Change

[drew wymore]

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>wrote:

> 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


SATA(2) and the USB enclosures will work just fine :-) It's what I picked up
the day I stopped by your place Rich.

Drew-
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