[Discuss] pseudo-off-site backup

[lconrad at laymusic.org (Laura Conrad)]

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Metro <tmetro+blu at gmail.com> writes:

    Tom> John Dvorak on last weekend's This Week in Tech (twit.tv) says
    Tom> he keeps a 1 TB portable drive (hopefully encrypted) in his car
    Tom> as a pseudo-off-site backup.

    Tom> Although way more likely to be damaged along with your house,
    Tom> compared to a real off-site backup, I bet if one looked at the
    Tom> percentage of cars destroyed along with their affiliated
    Tom> houses, the cars probably survive over 50% of the time. (If
    Tom> your car resides in a garage in or under your house, that
    Tom> likely goes down.)

The person I actually know who would have benefited most from an
offsite backup had all his electronics confiscated by the police when
they found some marijuana plants in his apartment.  I don't think having
it in his car would have worked.

Are there really people who don't have somewhere they go regularly that
they can leave a backup at?  I use my mother's house because I sometimes
go there for several days and it's theoretically useful for being able
to do work on those days (although I actually usually use the network),
but I have several friends who would let me use their place.  Maybe John
Dvorak should get out more?

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