I don't know about you, but we have data that is far too important not to make multiple backup copies ourselves. Think about whether you are willing to take a of risk losing it all because "the cloud" had a glitch or closed their doors.
A large cloud service corporation has made news headlines more than once because they permanently lost some of their customer's data. "The cloud" might be a convenient addition to external hard drives and optical media, but I would never trust my data exclusively to any third party regardless of how they backup the data. We have years of work and our means of living backed up on several external drives, DVDs/CD-ROMs, and memory sticks (some of which are in a safe deposit box). Not everyone needs all that, I realize. But if the data you have on your computers is important enough that it needs to be backed up, I suggest that you don't solely rely on any third party. 73, Mike www.w0btu.com On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Bob K6UJ <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm with Bill, I still use external drives for backups for the same > reason, but am tempted with "the cloud" > Maybe our worries are unfounded ? Do the "cloud" systems back up the data > (on external hard drives, :-) ? > _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
