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From: Willem <willem@turtle.stack.nl>
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Subject: Re: How reliable is zipping in Windows 7 Explorer?
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 11:33:34 +0000 (UTC)
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glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
) andymhancock@gmail.com wrote:
)
) (snip, someone wrote)
)
)>> Banks rent safe-deposit boxes for fairly reasonable rates.
)  
)> They're quite small!
)  
)> But seriously, who replicates home backups and stores them 
)> at different locations?  I know that one has to do it for 
)> serious backup, but who has found this feasible enough to 
)> do regularly?
)
) My bank has the smallest box free for customers with the 
) appropriate account. I put some CD-Rs in with some files
) that I would like to keep. (Mostly JPGs from digital cameras.
)
) But yes, I haven't been very good at regularly bringing in
) newer copies. Still, better than nothing.

There are several distributed, P2P, backup system where you and a couple of
friends all share disk space to keep backups for each other, over the
internet.  Encrypted, of course.

I haven't looked at any yet but I assume you can set it up to do nightly
incremental backups.


SaSW, Willem
-- 
Disclaimer: I am in no way responsible for any of the statements
            made in the above text. For all I know I might be
            drugged or something..
            No I'm not paranoid. You all think I'm paranoid, don't you !
#EOT