Anybody who really wants something to worry about should think about their bank going bust, or its systems failing. I’ve worked in financial services IT.
> On 20 Mar 2021, at 18:15, Bob Pdml <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not really Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Amazon and Google though. > >> On 20 Mar 2021, at 18:10, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> One word Bob: >> >> megaupload.com >> >> 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. -- %(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.
