Re: Backup for Home PC and Laptop -- PCTECH

Subject: Re: Backup for Home PC and Laptop
From: Tom Jedrzejewicz <tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 09:07:57 -0700
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On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx
<lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ummm. ÂI'm a bit of a nervous nellie about cloud based services. ÂWhat
happens to my data if they go bankrupt? ÂIf I decide to end my service
with them can I get my data back? ÂBut I've not totally ruled it out.

Well, you still have the originals! If you get an email that the
service is stopping (or the backup job starts failing) then switch to
another provider, or roll you own to Amazon S3 or another "disk in the
cloud" service.

IMHO, the risk of losing data because your PC fails just when the
provider goes belly up is smaller than the risk of losing data because
your PC dies and the USB drive does too.

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Follow-Ups:

Re: Backup for Home PC and Laptop , Bob Crothers
Re: Backup for Home PC and Laptop , David Gibbs

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