On 02/11/07, Christian, discombobulated, unleashed:

> what if I had to leave my house and 
>only had a few minutes to get the family to safety?  All my kids' and 
>family pictures are stored digitally and I worry about losing them to 
>natural disaster or some other tragedy including computer crashes.  So 
>here is my latest scheme:
>
>Once a week or more I manually run an rsync command to sync the files 
>from the Linux box to an external USB drive.  If I have to leave the 
>house in a hurry I can just grab the external enclosure which is in the 
>office next to the front door.
>
>A friend added to the paranoia the other day and suggested running 
>another rsync job to another Linux box at my parents' house for even 
>more redundancy.  Not a bad idea...  The initial sync would take hours 
>over the internet but changes and additions would go relatively quickly.

Dude - you want to move from there, sounds like a dangerous place to live.

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Cheers,
  Cotty


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