From: java@evij.com.invalid   
      
   On 2026-02-11 13:58, micky wrote:   
   >   
   > OT  I'm going out of town for 3 months, and I'm 1) making an image of my   
   > SDD  before I go, and 2) separately backing up all my data except maybe   
   > the stuff in the User folder, on two diffeent drives.   
   >   
   > Should I take drive 2, my 2.5 inch spinner data backup drive, with me?   
   > I'm afraid I'll lose it, because of the airline or somewhere else, and   
   > I'll have nothing.   In the past it never even occurred to me to take   
   > it.   
      
   Recently I spent some time away over Hogmanay helping a cousin sort   
   through the last (I hope) of his family documents, which involved doing   
   a lot of scanning.  Besides the scanner, I took two identical and   
   identically set up laptops and several 120GB USB sticks.  I kept the   
   spare laptop in my bedroom, so that, if the house was burgled overnight,   
   it would likely survive, and I hid the USB sticks in various places   
   around my luggage, so there was a good chance not all of them would be   
   stolen and/or go down.  Every night I backed up the data to the spare PC   
   and the USB sticks.   
      
   Needless to say, nothing was stolen, they're cousins after all and they   
   live in a fairly close knit community, and nothing went down, so perhaps   
   I was over cautious, but I did a lot of work there that I really, really   
   didn't want to lose!   
      
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