On 10 May 2013 09:51, Gareth France <gareth.fra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/05/13 09:28, Avi Greenbury wrote: >> >> Gareth France wrote: >>> >>> Agreed, in principle. However there are issues which prevent me from >>> doing this. Not something I can go into and as I've said before the >>> backups I do have aren't made in such a way that they could be >>> useable as is if my laptop were unusable for some reason. >> >> This would seem to defy their point somewhat. I'm carefully not >> criticising you here, but I imagine that the whole list cringed on >> reading that :) >> >> If you can get a good internet connection and don't mind entrusting >> your data to a complete stranger on the Internet, I can probably give >> you at least half a TB on a server you can rsync stuff to. >> > Sorry? You don't seem to understand what I'm saying. No I don't trust my > data with a stranger, that's one of the reasons I won't send the hard drive > off. I already have a server to back up to, it's the good internet > connection I lack. And why would anyone cringe reading that?
The cringing is because you accept in principle that you should have multiple reliable backups, but you say that you have issues that prevent you doing this, and that the backups you do have are not usable if you loose the laptop. What happens if the laptop goes up in smoke? That is why we cringe. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
