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Old 09-02-2015, 01:16 PM   #8
J Diddy
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Originally Posted by Finger Cookin View Post
I've looked into cloud based services, but I'm still more comfortable with a physical back-up. I just connect it once a month when I do my back-up, and disconnect it afterwards. I guess that kind of back-up wouldn't work in the event of a disaster (fire, flood, etc.), as the back-up drive is in the same space as my PC. But it would work fine for recovery due to power surges or general unexpected PC shenanigans.

I've thought about getting a safe deposit box to keep my back-up drive in offsite.
So if you do your backups manually on the first of the month (lets assume you remember)...what do you do when your harddrive fails on the last of the month? Just accept that you lost a months worth of data?
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