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bill On Sat., Mar. 20, 2021, 11:27 a.m. Bob Pdml, <[email protected]> wrote: > The chances of that are probably massively lower than the chances of you > losing them. I don’t think Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Amazon and Google are > in the business of losing their customers’ data. > > The big players will have multiple copies with far better back-up than the > likes of you and me, and the chances of them going out of business without > clients being able to make other arrangements, are negligible. > > To my mind the only reasons not to use cloud storage are if it’s too > expensive or if one needs guaranteed access offline, eg somewhere with no > or poor connectivity. In many cases the offline storage comes bundled with > other services that one pays for anyway. In the second case of course one > needs local storage, but that in itself doesn’t strike me as an argument > against cloud storage as a backup, only for working copies. > > All my photos are stored in the cloud version of LR. I used to keep a > separate local backup when I had a laptop, but I don’t bother now. My other > data is on OneDrive, mostly, and whatever the Apple version is called. If I > could be bothered it would be easy to sync everything to a second cloud > service so I could assure myself that I had two copies, but I’m > sufficiently confident that these organisations have their own backups that > I really don’t worry my pretty little head about it. > > > > > On 20 Mar 2021, at 16:24, Ken Waller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Loose them ! > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > >> From: Bob Pdml <[email protected]> > >> Sent: Mar 20, 2021 4:12 AM > >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > >> Subject: Re: online photo storage platforms reviewed > >> > >>> On 20 Mar 2021, at 04:25, Ken Waller <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> With the cost of memory now, I’d be hard pressed to send my images to > the cloud or any other system that I don’t have total control over. > >> > >> What do you think they might do? > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
