Author: lug Date: To: hampshire Subject: [Hampshire] Big home backups
Hi all
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I'm looking for a home backup option. The amount of data I have is ~100Gb - quite a bit for a home user I know - but I have a young daughter and we've gone photo and video mad since she arrived. Those of you who are parents will, I'm sure, sympathise!
What I need the list's advice on is the method of making the backup. For example, I'd be happy to buy a portable HDD and keep it at work (or at home in a fireproof safe). Trouble is - how do I prevent someone at work plugging this (the HDD not the fireproof safe!) into a laptop and getting at my files? I have nothing to hide - but by the same token I don't want my accounts etc being made public knowledge.
I realise I could just compress the lot into one archive with a strong password and copy that file over but is that really secure enough?
The same applies with online backup services - you upload the file/files but how sure are you that a bored online backup sysadmin is going to find it impossible to get in?
I presume (showing my ignorance) that I could create an encrypted FS on the USB HDD but I've no experience here.
Am I on the right lines or are there better / simpler solutions? Being a home user, I obviously favour the one-off USB HDD to the monthly contract of an online backup.
