FWIW, I do think that cloud backups are awesome, but you should be careful not to give up control either. Remember, "The cloud" is code for "Someone else's computer". It is true that off-site backups protect you from local disaster, but it is probably also true that such disasters are given much more consideration now that the used car salesman--sorry, I mean online backup services--have an established market of fear surrounding local backups. You should resist the urge to go into the cloud just because.
The tool that I mentioned before, Arq, will encrypt your data before sending it to the cloud. If you trust encryption, and I think you can, then this is IMO the right way to use the cloud; give the provider your data, but keep the keys to yourself so that they cannot do anything useful with your backups. Remember, cloud services have outages and break-ins too, and while they are better set up for redundancy, they are also much bigger targets than your home backup drive or whatever for crooks, or governments (it's hard to tell them apart nowadays). Just my twopence. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
