A few years ago I was backing up all my data to a raid6 server. My thinking was any two disks can fail simultaneously and I still would not loose data. Unknown to me, I was using an Intel RAID controller that had a firmware bug and it trashed all my disks and I lost about 6 months of work. Now I do my backups with belts and braces so nothing like that can ever happen again. I now have multiple RAID servers which mirror each other and no one machine has components in common with the other machines. To me, cloud backup was just another redundant offsite backup, but the Amazon tools are horrible and the service hangs for no reason. Needless to say after fighting this all last night, I decided to abandon the Amazon cloud drive.
Regards, John > On Nov 28, 2015, at 3:23 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > This is the "excuse" if everyone using cloud storage. Simple fact is, there > is no data I have stored that is that important. All of it can be replaced. > Pictures, code, whatever. > > Not to mention a fire is very unlikely, but if there were one, if I were not > able to put it out, it would likely kill me anyhow. Rendering my data moot. > Theft ? well lets just say a thief would very likely have few dogs on him, > as well as a couple bullet holes. Someone is always here. > > On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On Nov 28, 2015 2:48 PM, <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > John Syne <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: UTF-8, 116 lines --] > > > > > > 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. > > > > > My offsite storage is in my garage which, fortunately, happens to be > > 50 metres or more from the house. > > > > Our broadband isn't broad enough to make cloud backup remotely sensible. > > I like my backup-backup nas.. The base board is bricked.. So the data is > securely saved.. ;) > > > -- > 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.
