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Over Christmas, I backed up all my stuff to a 3TB external hard drive that I took with me when I visited my parents and intentionally left the drive on a shelf
by AdmiralAsshat 8y ago
Over Christmas, I backed up all my stuff to a 3TB external hard drive that I took with me when I visited my parents and intentionally left the drive on a shelf at their house.
This is what I call a poor man's offsite backup.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoI assume you either told them what it is or are reasonably confident they won't throw away the random thing on their shelf that neither of them know about. I've seen a few cold backup setups like this, but I would both worry about the significant gap in coverage between the drive you left at Christmas and next time you update your backups. And also the shelf life of mechanical hard drives not in operation is poor.