Hi Harry and Mike and the group.  I've also had a few thumb drives go bad on 
me.  Also, you could back to an SD card, but again those are small too.
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From: "Mike Pietruk" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] backing up files on the internet


> Harry
> What's wrong with backing up onto an external drive?  As for free
> services, you get what you pay for and I would hardly trust my files to
> such an entity if it existed.
> It may be here today and gone tomorrow.
> As for not wanting to pay online, you likely stand a great risk using a
> debit or credit card at the grocery store, getting ccash from an atm, or
> the myriad of transactions we deal with everyday that involves the use of
> a card.
>
> Keep in mind that the reason she tries getting people to store online
> rather than onto an external drive is because Carbonite is her sponsor.
> If Seagate or Western Digital became an advertiser next week, she'd add
> them to the suggested list.
>
> What I would suggest is backing double be it to 2 drives, external
> services, whatever.  That way, if one of them goes bad or out of business,
> you have a backup for the backup.
>
> The downside to a thumbdrive is that they are soo small that you have to
> pick and choose.  With a usb external hd, I just back up everything
> periodically.
>
>
>
>
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