[Leaplist] Fastest backup possible?

[Phil Barnett]

On Friday 15 August 2008 01:46:47 pm patrick wrote:

> Never in the FRIDGE!!!  It only condenses water on the controller board,
> and internally, on the platters and heads!

Getting something cold does not make it condense water. Making it colder than 
the dew point of the surrounding air makes it condense water. If you keep it 
cold and keep it in cold or dry air, there will be no condensation.

> That is the recipe for RUST 
> and oxidation that really KILLS the electronics and mechanical parts!

That takes a long time. Much longer than the rescue time for the /home 
directory.

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