Originally Posted by
magiciansampras
You seriously carry around a terabyte usb drive with you wherever you go?
Yes, it's the size of my wallet, and it's in my travel back pack. What's so freaking hard to believe?
For added security, I have a 16GB microSD card with my essential data on the card, embedded in my Android phone.
And just for giggles, I have a 32GB thumb drive with my essential data backed up on my keychain.
Amazingly simple, redundant, and cheap and easy. Hard to believe, I know. Common sense ain't so common, is it?
Originally Posted by
magiciansampras
...Sure, but they could break into your home network, break into your house, etc. Your storage isn't necessarily any safer.....
All my sensitive data are encrypted in TrueCrypt file containers with super strong passwords. My hard drives also have hardware encryption as well. Good luck to a thief who would care to take the time to steal my relatively mundane and useless data (useless to them, invaluable to me).
This marks another disadvantage of online backups. Since I keep my data in secure TrueCrypt containers, I can't just do "delta" back ups. I would have to re-upload the entire TrueCrypt container, because the container file attributes do not change even when I change its contents. Mozy or other online auto-back up services couldn't pick up this "difference" and back up my large containers. I'd have to risk backing up raw data unsecured to Mozy or other online services. No thanks.