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To: Grampa Dave
Buy a NAS - Like a USB hard drive, only attached to your router... Always on... then go DL Cobian Backup and you will be set.

Note that it is always a good idea to periodically back up to a separate USB hard drive, connected only for that purpose, and disconnected (and unplugged) thereafter.

10 posted on 12/09/2012 10:47:46 AM PST by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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To: roamer_1

How long does a USB last? I have a USB loaded with some pictures that’s been sitting on the shelf next to my speaker for a couple of years.


11 posted on 12/09/2012 10:51:48 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: roamer_1
Note that it is always a good idea to periodically back up to a separate USB hard drive, connected only for that purpose, and disconnected (and unplugged) thereafter.

If your data is valuable then buy two USB hard drives and alternate them. Apply label stickers to them dating the backups. Store the newest copy in a friend's or relative's fireproof safe or a safe deposit box and swap them out on a schedule or when convenient. I used to store the latest copy in my BIL's gun safe. My SIL would come visit my FIL weekly and act as a courier. Simple, secure, inexpensive.

35 posted on 12/09/2012 4:19:05 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAOwJvTOio)
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