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Re: cloning and recovery drives

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i've resolved myself to the fact that there is NO 100% safe solution...
or, at least, one i can afford

i take reasonable precautions and live with the results

so far, so good


In article <530984cf$0$28904$862e30e2@ngroups.net>, John Albert
<j.albert@snet.net> wrote:

> On 2/21/14 11:51 AM, William Hanna wrote:
> > and, every week or five i clone my boot drive to a portable drive that
> > i keep in my car
> 
> Is that a platter-based HDD that you keep in the car?
> 
> You've had no temperature/humidity problems with it?
> 
> Just wondering, because it's an "off-site" strategy I've 
> considered myself. Chances are if the house burned down, the 
> car might make it through the conflagration.
> Then again, someone could steal the car, but keep the drive 
> encrypted, and chances are they won't be able to get at the 
> data (if they can even find the drive).
> 
> Right now, I use a weatherproof USB3 flashdrive for storing 
> some backup material in the car. But was leery about using a 
> conventional HDD drive, again because of the wide variations 
> in temperature we have here...

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cloning and recovery drives "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2014-02-18 13:17 -0500
  Re: cloning and recovery drives nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-18 13:28 -0500
    Re: cloning and recovery drives "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2014-02-18 18:19 -0500
  Re: cloning and recovery drives Alan Ralph <alan.ralph@gmail.com> - 2014-02-18 20:14 +0000
  Re: cloning and recovery drives Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2014-02-19 06:53 +0100
    Re: cloning and recovery drives "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2014-02-19 13:20 -0500
      Re: cloning and recovery drives Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2014-02-20 06:57 +0100
        Re: cloning and recovery drives dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-02-21 00:57 +1300
          Re: cloning and recovery drives "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2014-02-20 12:15 -0500
            Re: cloning and recovery drives Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-20 17:49 +0000
            Re: cloning and recovery drives dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-02-21 14:43 +1300
              Re: cloning and recovery drives dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2014-02-21 19:48 +0000
                Re: cloning and recovery drives dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-02-22 12:57 +1300
                Re: cloning and recovery drives dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2014-02-22 09:36 +0000
        Re: cloning and recovery drives William Hanna <whanna@invalid.invalid> - 2014-02-21 08:51 -0800
          Re: cloning and recovery drives Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-21 22:41 +0000
          Re: cloning and recovery drives John Albert <j.albert@snet.net> - 2014-02-23 00:19 -0500
            Re: cloning and recovery drives William Hanna <whanna@invalid.invalid> - 2014-02-23 06:32 -0800
            Re: cloning and recovery drives Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-23 14:16 -0500

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