From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:07:12 +0000, Java Jive   
    wrote:   
      
   >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   
      
   NOw that you say USB sticks.  That is so obvious.  I can live the   
   spinner at home and take a flashdrive, which is smaller anyhow.   
      
   I'm pretty smart, but I'm also slow.   
      
   >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.   
      
   I'm leaving my previous laptop at home, and I waanted to take out   
   everything to do with money, but if I take out the credit cards in the   
   Amazon site, they won't be in my other computer either.  I'm going to   
   close it up and stuff it under mattress, probably in the abandoned   
   bedroom where the ceiling fell down. It's a dusty, clumpy wasteland. For   
   a long while I wore a mask when I went in there so I wouldn't breathe   
   the attic insulation. A burglar would take one look and leave.   
      
   I don't have jewelry and most of what I have is 20 years old or more.   
      
   Plua a lot of people, even in my own 100 house community, don't know my   
   townhouse is here.  It's tucked away out of site.   
      
   Last trip  I again left the radio on a timer, to make it seem like I was   
   home, but since the house next door was vacant, I may have set it louder   
   than normal.  Then they showed the house to a potential buyer, heard the   
   radio, and decided I might be inside, dead.  So they called the police   
   who broke down the door and looked for me. Ruined the sheetrock and the   
   door moulding.  They put the door back but when I got hom from a   
   translantic flight and opened it, two of the three hinges were no longer   
   attached to the door frame.  Tired as I was I had to fix that.  Now   
   there is someone living there, so I think I'm safe.   
      
      
   >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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