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On Sunday 30 September 2007, Grant wrote: |
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> > I keep them on an USB-stick (udf filesystem, with the same settings |
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> > like a CD-RW). |
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> But where do you put the USB stick? If my apartment building burns |
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> to the ground while I'm away, I'll lose my systems and the backups. |
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I can't believe you actually asked that. Think, man, think. |
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Here's some ways to start: |
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Leave it at your mum's house where you have dinner every second day |
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Leave it at your girlfriend's house |
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Leave it in a safety box at the post office/your bank |
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Leave it at a friend's house |
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Leave it in the desk drawer at work |
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Hang it off your keyring so it's always on your person |
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Mail the data to your gmail account |
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Upload the data to your off-site web/ftp/whatever server |
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Store the backups in your car boot |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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