Re: Custom Cable creation

["John Andrews" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim

Cool idea - firewire can go up to 10 meters, so in theory you could bury it
in your garden ....

But have you thought of wifi? and putting a NAS box in say your garage /
car
/ caravan?
You can make NAS boxes from old 486's these days.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Fletcher" <timfletcher@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Custom Cable creation


> I am keen to make a safe site for my backups.  I have an automated
backup
> process running to a remote firewire HDD enclosure and it works
perfectly -
> The last total system HDD crash resulted in the loss of 3 spam emails
> delivered as the thing went down.  As I see it the only eventualities
my
> current system doesn't take account of are fire and theft.
>
> I was planning to buy a cheap safe about as big as a shoe box (20 quid
> Screwfix/Viking) located & fixed somewhere inconspicuous.  I would
then
get
> a small hole drilled in it and pass a firewire cable through.  I could
then
> lock the HDD enclosure in a box - BRILLIANT.  Has anyone cut firewire
cables
> and joined them again?  What was the outcome?  I could drill a hole
big
> enough for the connector but the steel is 4mm think and I think it
might
be
> tricky.  I can't use the smaller firewire connector as it doesn't have
> power?
>
> Any thoughts gratefully received.
>
> ps I know fire still isn't ruled out but if something so bad happens
as to
> take out both locations I guess data recovery will be the last of my
> worries.  I also have a periodic off-site backup to fall back on.
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