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Alan Brown Silver badge

Re: @MyBackDoor

"I am moving to a system of multiple drives with a week's gap in between and offsite storage cycling - just in case."

This brings up an important point about backups. You need at _least_ 3 copies of your data on separated media (the one you're backing up on, the one before that (offline) and the one before that (offline), which will be recycled to be your backup disk next time.)

I've seen script kiddies knock out ISPs and businesses because all their "backups" were online and directly attached to the system being "backed up". People really have no clue about keeping things safe.

The other classic is burglaries - people have lost not only their computers/laptops, but all the external hard drives that held the backups - conveniently placed on a shelf above the PC. Don't do that.

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