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I assume you either told them what it is or are reasonably confident they won't throw away the random thing on their shelf that neither of them know about.

I've seen a few cold backup setups like this, but I would both worry about the significant gap in coverage between the drive you left at Christmas and next time you update your backups. And also the shelf life of mechanical hard drives not in operation is poor.




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