Rich Freeman on 25 Jul 2012 10:06:03 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Backup drive filling up


On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:01 PM,  <gary@duzan.org> wrote:
>    Good question. The simple answer is "I don't know; I haven't been
> through it."

If you haven't been through it, then it isn't backed up.  :)

>From time to time I grab one of my encryption key escrow copies, go to
a PC without anything special installed, download all my data from S3,
decrypt it, and extract it all to a directory structure and poke
around.  I can't say I do it even annually, but I do check this when
anything I consider serious changes.  That's the only way to be
sure...

Rich
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