[time-nuts] While we're discussing backups...

[Neon John]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:30:33 +0000, Mark Sims <holrum at hotmail.com> wrote:

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>Any backup that is stored in the same city as the original (some would say within 100 miles of the city) is NOT a backup.  It is just a disk waiting for a (real) disaster.  No fire proof safe,  baggie,  etc is a substitute for physical distance.

That has to be the silliest thing I've ever seen posted to this list.  Even by
time-nut standards of pointless overkill.

John
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