On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 16:34 +0100, James Elsey wrote:
I have always been concerned of hard disks malfunctioning (too many bad experiences in my early days. And if the PC catches fire, then that other logical drive really isn't much of a good backup :P
I backup to a USB drive once every few weeks which in-between lives in the shed at the bottom of the garden...I figure a disaster of the scale that takes out my house and the shed will be so severe that getting my files back will be the last of my worries. So the only time I am really at risk is during the backup itself (which takes minutes not hours with rsync over 300GB of data)
BTW anyone now thinking of breaking into my shed to get a 500GB drive full of music and videos and all my email...I have to warn you I have guard cats !