[Discuss] pseudo-off-site backup

[tmetro+blu at gmail.com (Tom Metro)]

Laura Conrad wrote:
> Are there really people who don't have somewhere they go regularly that
> they can leave a backup at?

Sure, if you work from home.

Using a car could always be part of a layered strategy. Perhaps you
visit someplace irregularly and infrequently, so you use that as the
equivalent of a 6-month offsite backup, while the disk in your car you
rotate weekly.


> ...I have several friends who would let me use their place.

Right, plus there are at least a few commercial services that facilitate
exchanging storage space with people you know. (Isn't Crashplan one?)

Obviously the idea is a little bit silly compared to better
alternatives, like using a proper cloud storage service, but sometimes
an imperfect backup solution is better than no offsite backup.


> Maybe John Dvorak should get out more?

Quite likely. :-)

 -Tom

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