My guess is you do normal backups of all your important work; however, what if you have a fire, theft, or some other disaster, which will destroy all your backups as well. Hence the need for offsite storage. Now unless you are storing your backup tapes/disks offsite, cloud storage starts to make sense.
Regards, John > On Nov 28, 2015, at 12:41 AM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > > First one's free: you upload terabytes of data, then your year is up, and > what're you gonna do? > > Look over at the terabytes of data I have stored in my room. . . I never > understood cloud storage. > > On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 1:00 AM, John Syne <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > I saw this yesterday. Amazing. > > Regards, > John > > > > >> On Nov 27, 2015, at 11:24 PM, William Hermans <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Same price as the Raspberry PI zero. 5 Bux ;) >> >> So, I'm not exactly an rPI fan, by far. But for 5 bux . . . Or even free if >> you live in the UK, and have the ability to buy MagPI #40. As one comes in a >> packet attached to this months dead tree copy of MagPI. >> >> On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 12:10 AM, John Syne <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Hey guys, I read an article today which says Amazon is making their cloud >> drive unlimited storage for 1 year available for $5. Seems like a crappy >> interface, but for $5 for unlimited storage, who cares. >> >> http://mashable.com/2015/11/27/amazon-unlimited-cloud-storage-deal/#DmOVQBpWSaqs >> >> <http://mashable.com/2015/11/27/amazon-unlimited-cloud-storage-deal/#DmOVQBpWSaqs> >> Regards, >> John >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> <http://beagleboard.org/discuss> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. >> >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> <http://beagleboard.org/discuss> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > <http://beagleboard.org/discuss> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > <http://beagleboard.org/discuss> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
