Online Backup

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  • BusterBoy1

    Why would you bother backing up online? So cheap and easy to do offline. I just have two separate external drives where I do alternate backups every few days and store in separate locations.

    Simples!

    • Agree.
      Use Dropbox for temp file access and external HD full backup of everything.
      Hayzilla
    • Not everyone can store external HD's in separate locations. I take it you mean 1 at home and one at office or something?microkorg
    • ... if both are at home and you get burgled or theres a fire then you lose everything.microkorg
    • yep fire, hurricane, flood, crazy girlfriend, some shit that'll never happen but does.fyoucher1
    • That's why you keep one in a fire safe and the other on your person at all times.mg33
    • doing alternate backups "every few days" isn't doing backups, sorryernexbcn
    • plus it's not a chore, you pay a service and it runs on the background, copying files manually or managing drives like you say isn't a proper backupernexbcn
    • you can back up to a fire safe?dbloc
    • or are you pulling the drive out of the safe to backup every other day? seems like a lot of work.dbloc
    • Unless someone takes your firesafe. Then you're screwed.fyoucher1
    • cat pee. A friend lost his hard drive because his cat peed on it. Cat's can't pee on clouds.Beeswax
    • This is perfectly suited for my backup regime. Granted it's not a one size fits all. But some over complicate this process.BusterBoy
    • Yet, you seem to be over complicating it....ETM
    • ha - how is cloud storage overcomplicating it - it's the best solutionfadein11

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