[dba-Tech] External hard drive

If you had two smaller ones verses one big one and then rotate them
that might give you some reduntant backup in case one of them failed.
You could keep one in the fireproof safe or at your daughter's house
when it wasn't being used.

GK

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Susan Harkins <ssharkins at gmail.com> wrote:
> So, you need backups for the backups. : )
>
> Yes, I plan to move most of my digital photos to the hard drive, so I guess
> that's a good plan Tina.
>
> Susan H.
>
>> Hi Susan,
>> What I failed to do
>> was to make backups of the external hard drive, too.  So, when it failed
>> last winter, I had a very big OOPS - one that a geek like me should
>> never have!  Thank God for SpinRite!  Long, long hours (days, weeks,
>> even months) later, virtually all data recovered but, oh my what a hassle!
>
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