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On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Joerg Schilling |
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<Joerg.Schilling@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Backups. |
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>> get a usb stick and manually copy your stuff to it, periodically. |
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> Where do you get these 1 TB USB sticks? |
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You are seeing from the perspective of a sysadmin. |
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He was replying to me, a desktop user. My most important data occupy |
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little space and can surely be backed up in a 1 GB pen drive. The |
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music ripped from CDs, the linux ISOs and other kind of recoverable |
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data do not need backup. |
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As for my photos, I can back all the collection to a single DVD (and |
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to a second one, since I keep hearing that DVD-Rs are unreliable), and |
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since I don't take new photos every week, this solution is fine. |
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