Or use a service.  I use crashplan.com, and like them so far.  I've done a =
trial recovery.

For those paranoid types like I am, you can set an encryption key per machi=
ne you back up, which is nice so if your laptop is stolen, all your backups=
 are not suddenly exposed.

That, and I use encryption on my local disks anyway.

Recommended tools:

  Crashplan.com (or backblaze.com, similar service)
  1password -- to store your passwords (and encryption keys) securely

I don't make money off your use of any of these.  I just like 'em.  :)

--Michael



> On Jul 10, 2014, at 12:58 PM, Tamas Rudnai <tamas.rudnai@gmail.com> wrote=
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> make a backup, a backup of the backup, and a backup of the backup of the
> backup. Even then can lose data but at least not everything at once.
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> Tamas
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> On 10 July 2014 00:52, Richard R. Pope <mechanic_2@charter.net> wrote:
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>> Vasile,
>>     There were things in there that I would refer to on occasion. But
>> you are correct in stating that most of it is useless and just taking up
>> space on the drive. But with the huge drives of today I really don't
>> worry about running out of drive space. This was a concern 20 years ago
>> but the only time someone might use up a 300GB drive let alone a 1TB
>> drive is if they are recording videos or they are producing videos. Even
>> large music libraries won't normally fill up a 300GB drive. You are
>> correct about a fresh start but it still hurts to think that you could
>> make such a large mistake. Fortunately I had saved the files that were
>> sent to me at another location.
>> Thanks,
>> rich!
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>> On 7/10/2014 2:40 AM, Vasile Surducan wrote:
>>> Everytime I lost data on my computer the first thought was like yours:
>>> disaster.
>>> The truth is this is blessing. You have a new fresh start. Just think a
>>> little bit, why you would need emails from 15 years ago?
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>>> yesterday, nor tomorrow. You live just in the moment of now.
>>> :)
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>>> best wishes,
>>> Vasile
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