[ale] Personal Backup Strategies?

[Geoffrey]

Jim Kinney wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com 
> <mailto:lists at serioustechnology.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Jim Kinney wrote:
>      > Never underestimate the bandwidth of a minivan loaded with back
>     up tapes!
> 
>     You know, the original of that is:
> 
>     Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon loaded with back up
>     tapes!
> 
>     Originally coined prior to the minivan era...
> 
> 
> Heh, heh :-) I had to update the moniker to be more current. My SUV has 
> more internal space than a 1970's stationwagon. The old "minivan" was 
> cavernous compared to the SUV.

I don't know guy, my parents old country squire station wagon was a 
pretty huge beasty.

> 
> ALE'er Jeff Hubbs told me of a situation once he was on where it was 
> cheaper and more expedient for him to grab a spare system and some 
> external hard drives, drive 3 states away, do a data drop to the drives 
> and return to Atlanta than to obtain enough bandwidth to transfer the 
> data in less time than the 3 state driving process.
> 
> It's a strange world we live in.
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> James P. Kinney III
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Until later, Geoffrey

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