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Re:Ask HN: How do you back up your drives? by larrys on Saturday July 19, 2014 @03:12PM (#8058394)
"I use TimeCapsule on a standalone drive networked over my router."

Doesn't protect against a fire. Or someone who swipes the router and/or the data source.

Suggest either an offsite backup or a fireproof hard drive (iosafe for example) to backup the backup. (TC is funky with attached drives or at least that is what I have found when trying to use an attached drive on an airport extreme). (Of course someone can also swipe the fireproof hard drive).

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Re:Ask HN: How do you back up your drives? by carbocation on Saturday July 19, 2014 @03:24PM (#8058433)
I agree that TC is funky with attached drives.

Also, I don't care (much) about old versions of my personal data. If I did, this would be an unacceptable backup solution because fire/theft of my TC could wipe it out, as you mention. But between my TimeCapsule and my Google Drive, it strikes me as unlikely that my laptop, my TC, and my Google Drive will fail me all at the same moment. If so, I would be SOL.

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