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From: "Bobbie Hall" <>
Subject: Re: OTRE: [TMG] Re: Back ups first
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 10:31:31 -0600
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ROTFL!!

Ok, Richard, YOU win the prize for obsessive - compulsive TMGer for the
MONTH. Usually it is Teresa, occasionally Darrell or Cheri.

I've heard of people keeping a CD of their data in their car, and perhaps in
a safety-deposit box, but... a concrete box on the hill?
Mind you, it does take one to know one.... as she goes out to dethatch, by
hand rake, her entire semi-wild acre.

Cheers,
Bobbie Hall
Chicago

> For a long time I have wanted to bury a concrete box in the hillside
> where it would have good drainage and ventilation. I would run power
> and LAN cable underground to that box and put an old computer with a
> large hard drive in it. My software will automatically backup every
> changed file to that hard drive.
>
> As long as I have vents in the box, the heat from the computer should
> carry excess humidity out of the box. Does anyone see any problems
> with such a system?
>
> Richard Brogger

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