Data Security

[Bruno Schroder]

I'm using OneDrive for storage in the cloud. You can get 5TB of cloud storage with Microsoft Office365 Home for 100$/year, with 1 user name per TB though.

[David H. Hartman]

The physical disks go into the house's nuclear shelter which is mandatory in Switzerland and which is fire proof, and, off course, NRBC proof, the advantage being that it is only a few steps away.

Do I understand that all houses in Switzerland have a bomb shelter? I remember a doctor up the street where I lived in Glendale, California that had a bomb shelter. This was in about 1960 when as kid we practiced "duck and cover" in school. I collage we learned about the best one could do is kiss their sweet ass goodby.

Best,

Dave Hartman

The US Postal Service had a plan for delivering the mail after a nuclear attack. 

[Frank Fremerey]

I'm using OneDrive for storage in the cloud. You can get 5TB of cloud storage with Microsoft Office365 Home for 100$/year, with 1 user name per TB though.

I use OneDrive for 69€ per 1 Terabyte, which is really not much money.
The OneDrive for 100€ per 5 Terabyte would allow me to store all NEF I took to date and did not delete. But I should delete a lot of them.

[MFloyd]

Hello Dave,

When you are building a house, you have two options: have your own nuclear shelter or pay a tax contribution for the collective shelter of your village; actually, Switzerland has over 10 million shelter places or 25% excess over the actual population. A few years ago there was some initiative to stop this (peace dividend and other bullshit); the Fukushima disaster made a definitive halt to this initiative; so we are still building (expensive) shelters.

Some more info here http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/prepared-for-anything_bunkers-for-all/995134

Some of our mountains are like Swiss cheese, full of holes i.e. bunkers.  Some of these huge underground constructions have been converted for data storage. Here, one (of the many) example: https://www.deltalis.com or http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/rock-solid_banking-on-bunkers-in-the-swiss-alps/10018268

[Frank Fremerey]

When you are building a house, you have two options: have your own nuclear shelter or pay a tax contribution for the collective shelter of your village; actually, Switzerland has over 10 million shelter places or 25% excess over the actual population. A few years ago there was some initiative to stop this (peace dividend and other bullshit); the Fukushima disaster made a definitive halt to this initiative; so we are still building (expensive) shelters.

I thought this law is an excuse for men building cellars for their extensive Bordeaux wine collection, it turned into a business for some people I know.

Good to know they also serve as data security bunkers! Also a nice business opportinity

[David H. Hartman]

Strange. The Disk Management module of computer Management will happily remove partitions of any disk, be it created by Windows, Mac, or Linux. I have done that numerous times so know it'll work. Besides, it has a graphical UI too if the command line is an obstacle.

Good to hear: I was probably working with WinXP when I had the problem with the G-DRIVES. I'm sorry if this is obsolete information.

Dave