Re: OT online back up

Larry L wrote:
My kid is going to be traveling out of the country for several months with his laptop. He spends many hours each week writing and I feel he needs to back-up all that work regularly.

Does anybody know/ have experience with/ recommend any online back-up services ... I don't even know such things exist, but I'm betting they do.



Thanks



First of all, it's a really bad idea for him to carry around a laptop with sensitive or valuable information. There's too much of a danger of it being stolen. If I were him I'd backup everything before I left and purge or encrypt all files that I'd never want anyone to get at. I'd also make sure that my usernames and passwords were expunged from any "keychain."

I wouldn't rely on on-line backup services. Aside from security issues, the Internet connections may be slow and unreliable, depending on where he's going.

I'd get a cheap and compact USB or Firewire hard drive for backup. If he's only backing up small files, like letters to and from home and other writing and a few photos, a tiny flash drive or two would work fine.

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