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An excellent point, Barbara. There's the oft-forgotten "fire" option as well. Since I no longer have a day job, I take one of my portable hard drives to a safe-deposit box at a local bank, and switch with the other portable hard drive once every couple months. Another option is simply to put a duplicate drive in your car......unless you park your car in a garage attached to your (not fire-proff) house. External hard drives are so cheap today, it's senseless not to have a duplicate in a safe place. b On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 1:43 AM, Barbara Gleason <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Just a note to all, here is another thing to think through when deciding > how and when and where to put backup drives. > > I would highly recommend you have two separate, duplicate backups of some > nature and hide, store offsite, etc. one of them. Why? One always thinks > one is backing up to forestall the inevitable hard drive failure, but one > is also possibly backing up to prevent theft of said backup drives! > > Need to leave or subscribe to the Sciart-L listserv? Follow the instructions at http://www.gnsi.org/resources/reviews/gnsi-sciart-l-listserv