I would think this is not only a good practice but advised. If you have critical data you usually want to back it up and store it in a different location in case the location where the data originates from encounters a disaster: fire, earthquake, missle attack, etc.
That being said, I don't trust the Maricopa County election officials or Dominion.
They have safes. Maybe they thought they would be clever and avoid sending it to wherever on the official machines, by taking it elsewhere and using a disposable device.
Safes don't solve the problem of the site getting hit with a disaster. This is typical disaster recovery protocol. Disks are mirrored or use some sort of redundancy, backups are taken, backups are stored in a separate location. That's standard operating procedure, I think, from a non-infrastructure guy.
I would think this is not only a good practice but advised. If you have critical data you usually want to back it up and store it in a different location in case the location where the data originates from encounters a disaster: fire, earthquake, missle attack, etc.
That being said, I don't trust the Maricopa County election officials or Dominion.
They have safes. Maybe they thought they would be clever and avoid sending it to wherever on the official machines, by taking it elsewhere and using a disposable device.
Safes don't solve the problem of the site getting hit with a disaster. This is typical disaster recovery protocol. Disks are mirrored or use some sort of redundancy, backups are taken, backups are stored in a separate location. That's standard operating procedure, I think, from a non-infrastructure guy.