Subj : What to do with a gia To : Ky Moffet From : Barry Martin Date : Fri Feb 11 2022 14:15:00 Hi Ky! > KM> But I would definitely consider exporting them to text and > KM> printing them out, if you can. > Yes, I'd have a backup copy (or two) of my passwords! Over the decades > I've had computers die: remember once came home from work to find my 256 > GB HDD now thinking it was a something like 48 GB drive. Have KM> I remember that! Good memory! No idea what happened - thinking maybe one of the r/w arms broke as thought I heard a rattling. Computer was on a UPS so shouldn't have been a shock from a voltage surge. > electronic backups to the NAS in the basement. KM> What sort of NAS do you have? ZyXEL NSA320 with a total of 5 TB storage (3 + 2). Antique by today's standards but works fine. The only thing I have to do when mounting is add in a command switch to add in to use the old/original protocol. Have this system's back ups, the storage for the camera's, and database backups for the MythTV system. The recordings themselves go to an external HDD (USB3). KM> I have a bunch of 2TB SAS drives that I'd like to set up as a NAS KM> or something similar. I was going to use Fireball, but its SAS KM> chip is real twitchy-picky and only works with random OSs when it KM> feels like it. Have a couple of SAS adapters that might work KM> better, haven't tested yet. I'm been planning to build my own NAS: use some of the old/smaller HDDs for end-directories (instead of a sub-dir on a huge/new HDD). Some other project bullies its way in front of the line.... > Here I have a password file on the computer -- not terribly secure but > I'm the only one on this computer. Some people recommend keeping on a > thumbdrive. KM> Problem is, thumbdrives are easy to lose, easy to corrupt, and KM> not terribly reliable. If one dies, it just dies, no warning. BTDT!! When I was visiting Europe a few years ago took a bunch of pictures, so had the originals on the cell phone's card, copied to the laptop, copied to a couple of thumbdrives which travelled more or less separately. No problems. OTOH I have had thumbdrives here just die. Some were those 'yellow' thumbdrives (the blue ones were fine). Others were some cheap ones (4 GB) I bought more or less for sneakernet stuff. No problems that I can recall with name brand ones. > I also have a Password Book: 2" ring binder with individual > pages for each site. I also will keep other notes such as Secure > Questions: some of my answers would normally be two words but the site > doesn't allow, or would have an aprostrophe but again the site doesn't > allow..... Sometimes other information like customer service telephone > numbers. KM> Good idea! I thought so! KM> I have a Standard List of Weird Crap I Can Remember from KM> not-at-all-secure-and-probably-compromised-but-who-cares, up to KM> Burn-Before-Reading-Never-Written-Down. If I can't remember, it's KM> up the list until I hit one. A List would probably work just as well -- after all the individual pages in my notebook are just a series of a list. Advnatage of the individual pages is easier to keep physically alphabetical (sequencing the sheets). The electronic list can be sequenced either by a sort function or manually inserting in the proper place. As long as it works for the user! :) ¯ BarryMartin3@ ® ¯ @MyMetronet.NET ® .... Computer Cooking: DATA: Sort-a like-a fig-a --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .