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I would agree with CW, a data centre is a far safer place for your data than
a home or office PC on just about every level. Personally I don't find the
cost justifiable, I am happy to assume the risk of looking after my own
data. Most of it can be re-built, it would simply be aggravation.
The discussion here is about data loss typically from hardware failure or
corruption. I guess we could add theft if it makes that data inaccessible to
you. I can't see how PGP really helps here? Better advice would be to secure
your home so that a thief can not run off with your PC. Of course data
centres have great physical security.
Your view seems to be keep the family jewellery in a lockbox rather than a
bank vault. I'm saying we are talking about a $50 wristwatch if it gets
stolen its inconvenient but I'm not going to loose sleep over it. Or maybe
you have the holy grail hidden away on your machine and are worried that it
may fall in to the wrong hands ;-)
Cheers.
Nick.
-----Original Message-----
From: Code 2 [mailto:code2@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 19 July 2005 23:13
To: Omega Listserver
Subject: Re[6]: HD Backup software
I'm neither paranoid nor implying anything. There is nothing unusual about
encryption software having this. In fact, PGP offers it as a feature called
Additional Decryption Keys for organizations' security officers. At least
PGP is up-front about it.
From: cwest <cwest@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, July 19, 2005, 12:15:02 PM
Subject: HD Backup software
If the world thought that or was as paranoid as you're implying you are, it
wouldn't be :). I think you might be watching too much TV, LOL.
-----Original Message-----
From: Code 2 [mailto:code2@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 12:08 PM
To: Omega Listserver
Subject: Re[4]: HD Backup software
> Respectfully of course, I'm still at a loss as to why anyone would
> want to do it the hard way!
I guess it's whatever lets you sleep nights. With an offsite backup
service, you are trusting the service does not have backdoor access to your
encrypted backup files. This is kind of like wondering if your bank is able
to open your safe deposit box without your key.
From: cwest <cwest@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: 'Omega-List' <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, July 19, 2005, 10:15:32 AM
Subject: HD Backup software
Yuk!
Jimmy, with RAID 0, if a drive fails, all you have to do is swap it for a
new drive without turning off the PC. This you conceptually know, right. No
rebooting, cloning, etc. It couldn't be easier.
If a virus has corrupted anything, which seems to be a rationalization for
doing images from which to recover, you have 2 choices if you can't manually
fix the corruption. From offsite bup restore the corrupted folder or
registry, or restore to XP's last restore-point. Either way takes 2-3
minutes. With offsite bup you can go back several iterations if necessary.
These are no-brainers. No swapping cables or disks etc.
Respectfully of course, I'm still at a loss as to why anyone would want to
do it the hard way! Btw there are tools that'll do restore points
periodically or whenever there's a change to the registry.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jimmy Snowden [mailto:jhsnowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 10:52 AM
To: Leslie_George; Omega-List
Subject: Re[2]: HD Backup software
If you really want to test your brain use BOTH. With Serial ATA drives you
can have RAID. Then you can have a ATA or serial drive in addition to the
two serial ATA drives back up on.
I didn't use RAID but did use two Serial ATA drives that Casper cloned one
to the other. Then I also had a bootable IDE type ATA drive that had
everything on it including a nightly backup using Windows XP's shadow
backup. The beauty of this is you can, depending on your BIOS options, boot
to the IDE drive instead of the Serial ATA drives by simply making a change
in the BIOS during your reboot.
Sorry to complicate things,
Jimmy
Thanks for all the advice. Will consider RAID but probably will go with
Casper.
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