re-install

[Ernest Doub]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 22 March 2013 08:43, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> >
> > Oh lordy......and you trust this Cloud thingie not to be hacked, not to
> > crash and wipe out all your "irreplaceable documents/files" and other
> data,
> > not to sell your data to the guvvmint or advertising agencies or to
> private
> > investigation companies?
> >
> > Lordy, lordy, but you are such a trusting soul, you are :-) .
> >
> > And, out of curiosity, how much per month do you pay for this
> "privilege"?
> > Much less than the one-off cost of an external 120GB HDD or a 120GB USB
> > memory stick?
>
> A 120GB disk is small and very cheap these days - but that means old &
> thus failure-prone. Any spinning medium is still highly failure-prone.
>
> A 120GB Flash drive, OTOH, is quite big and still expensive...
> £60-£100 here. And they fail too and when they do it's with no
> warning.
>
> Even if you have several, if the house burns down or you get burgled,
> they all go with it.
>
> Neither onsite nor offsite backup alone is good, but the happy medium
> is some cheap instances of both, working together.
>
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>
You need a friend/family member for offsite storage.  Do it on an exchange
basis, I'll store a shobox of drives for you and you store a box for me.
That way you are both protected from everything except an area wide
disaster.
Ed
On the Mojave

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