Gmail Drive

[Sput]

I keep my linkstation in the cupboard next to the telly which also contains the printer, router and cable modem. Have I mentioned it's fab? It's also the print server and time machine host.

[rts]

Oddly though they constanstly leave it plugged in, even when going away, so chances are if we are broken in to, their back-up will vamoose as well.

Doesn't seem that odd, would you usually hide your backup?

I appreciate Timemachine is a useful back-up if your computer goes squewiff, but if going away I always hide my back-up.

I'm not going to leave my only back-up of music, personal photographs, to be stolen by some scoundrell intent on nicking my laptop.

[cdd]

Is life not too short to live in fear of burglary?

[rts]

Don't be a prat, Chris. If you're going away on holiday, it takes two seconds to shove your external hardrive somewhere discrete.

By your principles shutting windows and locking the front door would be an unncessary burden!

[Gavin Scott]

I just want to acknowledge Row's rather excellent use of "vamoose" and "squewiff".

[Sput]

Don't be a prat, Chris. If you're going away on holiday, it takes two seconds to shove your external hardrive somewhere discrete.

Is that a computer joke?

[cdd]

Don't be a prat, Chris. If you're going away on holiday, it takes two seconds to shove your external hardrive somewhere discrete.

I'm not saying that in itself it's a bad precaution, just that down that path madness lies. If I worried about burglary, I'd have to worry about fire, floods, magnetic fields, viruses etc as well... all seem equally likely and destructive. In truth theft is probably the least likely cause of data loss.

Sorry if you took my comment personally, the tone of your reaction implies I offended you.

[Dr Lobster*]

Don't be a prat, Chris. If you're going away on holiday, it takes two seconds to shove your external hardrive somewhere discrete.

I'm not saying that in itself it's a bad precaution, just that down that path madness lies. If I worried about burglary, I'd have to worry about fire, floods, magnetic fields, viruses etc as well... all seem equally likely and destructive. In truth theft is probably the least likely cause of data loss.

Sorry if you took my comment personally, the tone of your reaction implies I offended you.

i hide my backup drive also when i go out for any amount of time, i don't live in fear of burglary, it's just that i have 12 years worth of work on my computer (photos, code, etc) i couldn't afford to lose that, everything else i can replace on insurance, but treasured photos cannot be replaced - it's not irrational and it's no different to a company having a backup device on multiple sites - it's just there to spread the risk.

[Nini]

I do off-site backup, usually just a case of cycling two drives monthly where one is with me and the other is in a storage box.

Nothing better than redundant redundancy.