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<blockquote data-quote="IvanLasston" data-source="post: 1419214" data-attributes="member: 145676"><p>My family and I are currently safe from the fires - but I have friends in both major burn areas (High Park and Waldo) that are affected. Evacuations and some may have lost their houses already. No one knows quite yet as the burn area in Colorado Springs is too dangerous to get to.</p><p></p><p>Good info on the ISO. Hadn't thought of that.</p><p></p><p>I had written up some things on RAID earlier. I may try to consolidate and focus on backup.</p><p></p><p>Some other places to stash data - again an online distributed strategy is probably good. The more places you have important data - the less chance you have of losing it (i.e. company goes out of business) </p><p></p><p>dropbox - the gold standard - everything seems to integrate to dropbox nowadays.</p><p><a href="http://www.dropbox.com" target="_blank">www.dropbox.com</a></p><p></p><p>box - online - not very well integrated into Desktop OSes. (SugarSync and Dropbox can look like folders on the desktop. Does have an iOS app.</p><p><a href="https://www.box.com/" target="_blank">https://www.box.com/</a></p><p></p><p>Sugarsync - has a manager just like dropbox for syncing to the deskop. They also have an iOS app that works well. They give you 5GB of space.</p><p><a href="https://www.sugarsync.com/" target="_blank">https://www.sugarsync.com/</a></p><p></p><p>Amazon cloud drive</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/learnmore?tag=macforums0e4-20" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/learnmore?tag=macforums0e4-20</a></p><p>5GB Free. </p><p></p><p>Microsoft Skydrive</p><p><a href="https://skydrive.live.com/" target="_blank">https://skydrive.live.com/</a></p><p></p><p>Google Drive</p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/</a></p><p></p><p>As always - keeping data online is somewhat of a risk so choose carefully how sensitive information is stored there. Consider encryption (the dmg file, an encrypted iso, using tar and gpg) to store sensitive files online. That being said - being online at all is a risk for identity theft so tread lightly whatever you do when putting personal information online.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: I use GPG to transfer sensitive files as it is available on all major systems. Here is a good article on how to use it with a shared password.</p><p><a href="http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-how-to-encrypt-and-decrypt-files-with-a-password.html" target="_blank">http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-how-to-encrypt-and-decrypt-files-with-a-password.html</a></p><p>You could get really fancy and use shared keys to encrypt/decrypt data.</p><p><a href="http://drdatabase.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/gpg-a-quick-howto/" target="_blank">http://drdatabase.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/gpg-a-quick-howto/</a></p><p>Or use an encrypted password file to share</p><p><a href="http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/23869/encrypt-files-using-gpg-and-them-symetric-encrypting-the-key-is-it-a-normal" target="_blank">http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/23869/encrypt-files-using-gpg-and-them-symetric-encrypting-the-key-is-it-a-normal</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IvanLasston, post: 1419214, member: 145676"] My family and I are currently safe from the fires - but I have friends in both major burn areas (High Park and Waldo) that are affected. Evacuations and some may have lost their houses already. No one knows quite yet as the burn area in Colorado Springs is too dangerous to get to. Good info on the ISO. Hadn't thought of that. I had written up some things on RAID earlier. I may try to consolidate and focus on backup. Some other places to stash data - again an online distributed strategy is probably good. The more places you have important data - the less chance you have of losing it (i.e. company goes out of business) dropbox - the gold standard - everything seems to integrate to dropbox nowadays. [url]www.dropbox.com[/url] box - online - not very well integrated into Desktop OSes. (SugarSync and Dropbox can look like folders on the desktop. Does have an iOS app. [url]https://www.box.com/[/url] Sugarsync - has a manager just like dropbox for syncing to the deskop. They also have an iOS app that works well. They give you 5GB of space. [url]https://www.sugarsync.com/[/url] Amazon cloud drive [URL]https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/learnmore?tag=macforums0e4-20[/URL] 5GB Free. Microsoft Skydrive [url]https://skydrive.live.com/[/url] Google Drive [url]https://drive.google.com/[/url] As always - keeping data online is somewhat of a risk so choose carefully how sensitive information is stored there. Consider encryption (the dmg file, an encrypted iso, using tar and gpg) to store sensitive files online. That being said - being online at all is a risk for identity theft so tread lightly whatever you do when putting personal information online. EDIT: I use GPG to transfer sensitive files as it is available on all major systems. Here is a good article on how to use it with a shared password. [url]http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-how-to-encrypt-and-decrypt-files-with-a-password.html[/url] You could get really fancy and use shared keys to encrypt/decrypt data. [url]http://drdatabase.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/gpg-a-quick-howto/[/url] Or use an encrypted password file to share [url]http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/23869/encrypt-files-using-gpg-and-them-symetric-encrypting-the-key-is-it-a-normal[/url] [/QUOTE]
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