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stephenr on May 30, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Switch from Chrome to Firefox

I get that but what I’m saying is, why limit yourself to a “real” backup once a week? What benefit does it have to just leaving the drive plugged in?

Dylan16807 on May 30, 2019 | [–]

I for one like to have some protection from crypotolockers. And power surges.

antsar on May 30, 2019 | [–]

Some people use laptops, and want to move around with those laptops. Keeping an external drive connected kinda gets in the way :)

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