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[OT] Hardware question: storage of portable drive
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. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://BrownMath.com/ http://OakRoadSystems.com/ Shikata ga nai... |
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