On 09/23/2010 09:10 PM, Sean Phelan wrote:
This is debatable. Certainly having your data on a host provider makes
you beholden to the quality of their systems, but the bigger players
these days have their act together and their risk (and yours)
distributed fairly well through backups and remote locations.
Don't be so quick to believe that!
I'm writing this reponse from a t-mobile sidekick. Fall of 2009, the
entire sidekick network crashed, and all the data was lost - no backups,
no redundancy.
The company in charge was Microsoft itself. Techs had to do a partial
recovery from the actual crashed hard drive. I lost a fair amount of
data that month.
You never know. The better question is probably ... How easy is it to
backup myself?
Bruce gave a pretty good lightning talk on googlecl a couple meetings
back, with a reference to http://www.dataliberation.org/. Useful to
check out, as that answers some of the backup questions with respect to
google.
-Sean
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