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We already do. My pictures are all stored "in the cloud" (on facebook, or flickr, or photobucket). "My" music doesn't even really exist anymore, it is playlis
by blhack 16y ago
We already do.
My pictures are all stored "in the cloud" (on facebook, or flickr, or photobucket). "My" music doesn't even really exist anymore, it is playlists on grooveshark, or stations on pandora.
Documets? Google documents.
I do all of my web development on VIM running VPSs.
The only stuff that doesn't happen "in the cloud" is specialized, media-creation type things, an activity that I would be surprised if more than 5% of the population participates in.
- peterwwillis 16y agoso you don't have a backup of any of your data?
- blhack 16y agoWhat do you mean? There isn't really any data to be backed up here, except for the web dev things. For that, there are three servers that all exchange rsyncs every night. One is prod, one dev, and one that is just using some spare disk space on one of the arrays at work. For the photos, the online stuff is the backup. The originals still live either on their negatives, or on SD cards.
- whatusername 16y agoYou fit your photos on SD cards? wow. my 8GB card fills up pretty frequently.
- blhack 16y ago8GB sd cards are cheap, much cheaper than it would cost me to buy 1000 frames of film.
- whatusername 16y agooh sure. But TB hard-drives are cheaper still.
- peterwwillis 16y agoonline is not a backup. there is a reason we back up databases to magnetic tape, store them in remote locations, rotate tapes and test their integrity.