SSD?

[Colin Law]

On Sun, 6 Mar 2022 at 16:17, Smoot Carl-Mitchell via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2022-03-06 at 15:10 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> > On Sun, 6 Mar 2022 at 14:59, <ubuntu at howorth.org.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > My backup drive is permanently connected and has been for many
> > > years
> > > and I've never had any such problem. I'd much rather have a backup
> > > drive connected so it just works reliably day after day with no
> > > action required.
> >
> > A permanently connected drive is fine as *a* backup drive, provided
> > it
> > is not the only backup you have.  As others have pointed out a
> > burglar, power surge, fire, or hacking could take out your complete
> > system so if you want to be able to recover from such possibilities
> > you need an offsite backup strategy too.
>
> It is better to have a separate system in a separate location as a
> backup device.

Isn't that what I said?  In fact I said it is a *must* to have offsite backups

Colin