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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: OTRE: [TMG] Re: Back ups first
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 19:34:59 -0500
In-Reply-To: <3E89B534.32232851@infoave.net>


On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 09:50:12 -0600, Richard Brogger wrote:

>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.

How come no one mentioned the risk of a virus? Don't today's e-mail
viruses try to spread to other systems on the LAN, potentially
messing up the remote HD? Or are we so sure of our anti-virus
practices we don't worry about that? <g>

I've thought about it a bit with my system of using a second HD in my
main computer for daily backups. But I worry more about a lightning
strike getting though my UPS and taking out both HDs. But still, I
figure it protects against a lot of risks.

Terry Reigel



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