> On Mar 20, 2021, at 10:27 AM, 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 important thing is not losing all of your backups at the same time. There are many ways that you could lose access to your data on cloud storage. They could go out of business, go out of that business, you could lose your network access, they could raise their rates to more than you want to pay, or simply completely restoring from online backups over a slow internet connection could take weeks. There are definite advantages to having them as one element of a backup strategy. If you have four copies but they are all at your house any natural disaster, or a burglary could wipe them all out. Even if you have offsite copies across town the same disaster could wipe out all of your copies. There is no backup solution that works for everyone. However, if you don’t have multiple copies, in multiple places at some point you will lose data. -- Larry Colen [email protected] -- %(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.
