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I'm continually amazed at the number of people who don't back up their most important data. I'm not shaming this particular guy- the majority of my non-techie f
by holman 16y ago
I'm continually amazed at the number of people who don't back up their most important data. I'm not shaming this particular guy- the majority of my non-techie friends make no real backups. Of those that do, very few of them make regular, incremental backups (like Time Machine, for example).
With more and more data getting hosted on the cloud, maybe this concern becomes (thankfully) less relevant.
- jacquesm 16y ago> With more and more data getting hosted on the cloud, maybe this concern becomes (thankfully) less relevant. Typically as the frequency of the incidents goes down due to centralization the seriousness of the incidents that do happen goes up.
- tomjen3 16y agoThe majority of technical people I know don't back up stuff either, even stuff that is important. Why that is, I have not idea.
- Tichy 16y agoIt's still really complicated to do backups. Except perhaps with time machine (the external box that is connected via WiFi). I recommended the Time Capsule to a friend with a Mac, but she considered it too expensive at the time. Why there are no competing products for other OS is beyond me. I also still have backups for my home networks on my TODO list... Most work is duplicated on Servers (email, git), but music and photos are still endangered.
- aw3c2 16y agoCloud storage is not a backup. "Oops, I deleted that file" deletes it in the cloud too.
- pohl 16y agoBeing in the cloud is orthogonal to that issue, isn't it? After all, you could use a DVCS in the cloud. Or a cloud service could offer this: https://www.dropbox.com/help/11 https://www.dropbox.com/help/11