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kalos:
OK, but it doesn't really make any sense to do that, I want to save my data in case someone breaks into my house and steal my laptop! He will also steal the usb as well!
-kalos (December 27, 2015, 06:36 PM)
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Not if you have it on you?
-wraith808 (December 27, 2015, 06:38 PM)
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and I will plug it in every time I want to use my laptop? that's very inconvenient!
4wd:
OK, but it doesn't really make any sense to do that, I want to save my data in case someone breaks into my house and steal my laptop! He will also steal the usb as well!
-kalos (December 27, 2015, 06:36 PM)
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Not if you have it on you?
-wraith808 (December 27, 2015, 06:38 PM)
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and I will plug it in every time I want to use my laptop? that's very inconvenient!
-kalos (December 27, 2015, 06:40 PM)
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That's not what wraith said.
Someone can't steal the flash drive if it's with you, they can steal the laptop but not the flash drive ... thus your data is still available.
If you're going to keep the flash drive with your laptop and you're worried about it being stolen with the laptop then don't bother making a backup because you have other problems.
MilesAhead:
Someone can't steal the flash drive if it's with you, they can steal the laptop but not the flash drive ... thus your data is still available.
-4wd (December 27, 2015, 06:56 PM)
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He could always hide a pen drive with a copy of the backup, in a mayonnaise jar on Funk & Wagnalls back porch. Nobody would think of stealing it there. :)
wraith808:
OK, but it doesn't really make any sense to do that, I want to save my data in case someone breaks into my house and steal my laptop! He will also steal the usb as well!
-kalos (December 27, 2015, 06:36 PM)
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Not if you have it on you?
-wraith808 (December 27, 2015, 06:38 PM)
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and I will plug it in every time I want to use my laptop? that's very inconvenient!
-kalos (December 27, 2015, 06:40 PM)
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That's not what wraith said.
Someone can't steal the flash drive if it's with you, they can steal the laptop but not the flash drive ... thus your data is still available.
If you're going to keep the flash drive with your laptop and you're worried about it being stolen with the laptop then don't bother making a backup because you have other problems.
-4wd (December 27, 2015, 06:56 PM)
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And even if you do have larger problems... I can still solve your primary objection.
https://www.sandisk.com/home/mobile-device-storage/connect-wireless-stick
tomos:
Backup is unfortunately rarely convenient - that is if want you do it properly.
For the ongoing 'monitored' realtime backup, you could always use one of those tiny pen drives -- and leave that always plugged in to the laptop (same as the idea above to backup to a partition on the laptop).
You'd still have to copy that backed-up content very regularly to another drive, be it a full external HD, or to another pen drive. Again, as said multiple times here: keep separate from the laptop, and ideally have one recent copy of same somewhere else completely.
Online backup gives another level of security, but it's just one layer of backup where things can go wrong.
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