[sdiy] Cloud or not cloud... That's the question..

[Rick Jansen]

On 15/10/2015 15:37, Pete Hartman wrote:
> Anybody who puts their very precious data in any single place is looking to lose it.
> Backups and multiple providers are key.

Agreed! Personally I have my regular files on a Mac, time machine backupped to an external 
drive that has two disks that are mirrored. Another external drive containing two mirrored 
disks is used for big files and stuff I don't need to access often.

Regularly I (incremental) backup precious stuff (photos, music, work) to two small 
terabyte USB drives that are stored outside the house, and regularly are swapped.

People losing their files must be a big money maker for music and film industry. Almost 
nothing simply stored on a computer with one disk will survive 10 years...

My oldest file is dated October 16th 1985, a MacPaint document I proudly copy along every 
time to a new drive :-)

Cloud services are nice, but the provider can always decide they quit, terminate their 
business, stop your access, or whatever. They can fail too. Maybe I'm oldfashioned, but 
when I buy music or a film I still want the physical disk too...

rick