>>It's that "in theory at least" part that keeps me away ;-)
Ditto, that is why I keep a local copy(s) of my back up in-house and then back that up to "the cloud". Really, it is a numbers game. Nothing is impossible but it is highly improbable that both local and cloud will fail at the same time. G! On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Bryan Stevenson < [email protected]> wrote: > > It's that "in theory at least" part that keeps me away ;-) > > +1 for backing up backups! > > On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 12:21 -0400, Gerald Guido wrote: > > > >>. Most cloud storage providers have much more redundancy (and other > > protections) than you're going to get with your own hardware. > > > > +1 > > > > They have excellent Department of Redundancy Departments. The distributed > > nature of cloud systems means (in theory at least) that there is no > single > > point of failure. > > > > Having seen backups fail, I am a firm believer in backing up one's back > ups > > and having multiple storage locations for important documents and data; > both > > local and off site. > > > > G! > > > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Dave Watts <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > . Most > > > cloud storage providers have much more redundancy (and other > > > protections) than you're going to get with your own hardware. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. > VP & Director of E-Commerce Development > Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. > phone: 250.480.0642 > fax: 250.480.1264 > cell: 250.920.8830 > e-mail: [email protected] > web: www.electricedgesystems.com > > Notice: > This message, including any attachments, is confidential and may contain > information that is privileged or exempt from disclosure. It is intended > only for the person to whom it is addressed unless expressly authorized > otherwise by the sender. If you are not an authorized recipient, please > notify the sender immediately and permanently destroy all copies of this > message and attachments. > Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347106 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
