As we all know, offsite storage of backups is an important component
of a secure backup strategy.

I have two portable drives, non-SSD type, with their own sealed
enclosures. Every week I do a full backup on one, take it to work,
and bring the other home, where I do the same full backup. But I'm
retiring now, so that's no longer an option. Uploading about 40 MB to
cloud storage, at the roughly 1 MB/s speed I get, would take almost
12 hours.

There's always safety deposit boxes, though they're not close by and
there's a cost. But since I have a detached garage, I wondered about
just storing the "off site" drive in the garage. The garage isn't
climate controlled, so the drive would be out of the weather but
subject to temperature fluctuations from 0°F to the 90s -- probably
not in the same day. :-)

Any likelihood that would cause problems? I know of course to let the
drive come to indoor temperature before using it.

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