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Friendly reminder that your stuff is not "backed up" in the cloud unless you have a local copy. Otherwise it just lives in the cloud, meaning it lives on someon
by AdmiralAsshat 10y ago
Friendly reminder that your stuff is not "backed up" in the cloud unless you have a local copy. Otherwise it just lives in the cloud, meaning it lives on someone else's server.
- reitanqild 10y agoYep. General point. Same goes for external hard drives etc: it is only a backup as long as it also primarily exists somewhere else.
- marcosdumay 10y agoWell, if you have read-only copies on different enough servers, owned by different enough people, it's a backup to some degree. Security is never an absolute. But a local copy will almost certainly be easier to police for "uncorrelated risks in the ways that matter".