At 10:45 AM -0700 7/8/2010, john CARMONNE wrote:
My Backup drives are becoming a bit of a chore to keep track of and
offsite online backup is very tempting, However I'm a liitle afraid
of some company deciding how my drives should be copied and exactly
what access is afforded.. Does anyone use this service for Mac's and
what company is a good one? I like the Time Machine method the best
but CCC will boot so I redundantly do both.
Offsite == Good. Just rotate your backup drives.
Online == Bad. Your fears are spot on. There are NO NONE ZERO
online backup services that are going to guarantee your privacy, do
anything to protect your privacy in the face of a law enforcement
inquiry, or a hacker with two brain cells, or even do much to
guarantee your data integrity. Even if you pay the big bucks, all
those risks are still present. If you google around for such
services, read their T&C. Mostly it's about you indemnifying *them*
and them being totally NOT liable for anything!
The above being said, there was some discussion/review of various
services on TidBITS a while ago. Check it out.
<http://db.tidbits.com/>
CCC's help has some directions for rotating volumes. Basically you
set it to only check the volume name and not the volume's UUID also.
That way today you plug in drive #1, and next week you use drive #2 -
and as long as they have the same volume names on them, you're good
to go.
IMO, a friend's sock draw is the best "offsite" localle. Work out a
trade dealio, you stash his and he stashes yours. To be really save
tho, make sure his home is outside of your blast radius.
HTH,
- Dan.
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- Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth.
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