Re: My lunch with Microsoft

[J R FOX <jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Not to deny the value of Phil's approach in certain situations, I think you make 
a good point: offsite backup is the way to go.  What I favor is shuttling backup 
images (made alternately -- for redundancy -- with Acronis and Shadow Protect,
which I think I learned about on this list) into safe-deposit box storage.  From time 
to time I also make whole clones of certain boot drives, for immediate drop-in 
replacements in the event of hardware or OS disasters.  And I've encountered 
both, over the years.  

I have little faith in the Cloud.  I want to be the only one with possible access or control.  

Apple users have good things to say about Time Machine -- or whatever that continuous 
backup of everything via attached portable HDD is called.  But that is not offsite backup.    


   Jordan

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On Fri, 2/15/19, Kari Eveli  wrote:

 Subject: Re: My lunch with Microsoft
 To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Date: Friday, February 15, 2019, 9:00 AM
 
 Phil,
 
 Your advice is solid. However, on a smaller
 scale (as a one-man company) I have managed
 to cover my needs for backup by buying a second hard disk
 
 for each machine. The cost is minimal
 compared to a NAS, and it has worked for
 me. In addition, it is a good idea to have backups that are
 
 not connected to the computer all the time.
 Back in the days of IBM AT, I had a 44 MB
 Bernoulli box, which was great at the time. Nowadays big 
 external hard disks are much less expensive and
 a good fallback solution.
 
 Best regards,
 
 Kari Eveli
 LEXITEC Book
 Publishing (Finland)
 lexitec@xxxxxxxxxx