Re: What free software based online backup service would you recommend? Are there any?

[Keith Thompson]

ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes:
>    I am not sure if USB sticks alone are better than online systems. I
>    would like to be sure that I wouldn't lose my data if I lost my
>    pendrive or if something bad happened to my house. This is why I am
>    looking for some place to keep my data in a different geographical
>    location, preferably in a different city to be more
>    secure. External hard drives are good but not reliable enough in my
>    opinion. External drives accompanied by securely encrypted online
>    backup would be OK though but only one of these two is not enough.
>
> If something would happen to your house, you have far more important
> things to worry about than a few random bits.

Yes, almost certainly other things would be more important than
your data.  That doesn't imply that your data is unimportant and
not worth protecting.

That's the whole point of off-site backups.

And things could happen to damage all your in-house data (say, a power
surge while your backup drive happens to be plugged in to your computer)
without destroying the house.

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