Re: Backup for Home PC and Laptop

[Bob Crothers <bob.crothers@xxxxxxxxx>]

Pretty much exactly how I was going to respond.

If the service fails, you've got the data on your pc's.

If your pc fails, you've got the service.

If both fail at the same time, you are screwed.  But, if you have a fire in
your computer room or house, and the pc fails, your disk drive is probably
up in smoke also.


Many companies have spent millions of dollars to implement Fail Safe.  Only
to find they forgot something.

Bob Crothers
www.BJsBariatrics.Com
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“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we
miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
- Michelangelo


On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Tom Jedrzejewicz
<tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx
> <lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Ummm.  I'm a bit of a nervous nellie about cloud based services.  What
> > happens to my data if they go bankrupt?  If I decide to end my service
> > with them can I get my data back?  But 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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