On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:02:49 -0500, aemeijers wrote:

On 3/3/2011 11:36 AM, George wrote:
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Secured online backup probably may best way.

How would you know it is "secure"? Serious question, one of the most
fundamental things about security is keeping physical possession. But
now all of the"cloud" marketing departments are busy telling us that
isn't true and we can trust "the cloud" since obviously it is totally
secure...

Call me a luddite- I want the CPU, the software, and the storage,
sitting in front of me where I can beat on it. Yes, I am lax about
backups, but there truly is nothing on this spindle I can't live
without. Critical stuff gets burned to disk as I create it, and I simply
don't create that much critical stuff at home. More or less the same at
work- they do back up the assigned work spaces on the shared drives, but
anything important I burn a CD anyway.

I don't have so much that's "critical", but I do have a lot of information I'd
rather not lose (pictures, music library, email). My ThinkPad has a backup
utility that runs once a week. The backup gets put on a couple of 500GB
drives (one copied to the other). It's gotten be out of a jam a number of
times. I don't trust CDs. I've had several go bad.