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This is to save your few hours of works while on widi-less plane? Or do you not use cloud drives?

• lisper 7y ago
  That's right, I don't use cloud drives. Where I travel, high speed internet is often not available. Also, I don't trust cloud providers. "The cloud" is a synonym for "someone else's computer." I want my data on hardware that I own and control.
  • shawnz 7y ago
    Why don't you just encrypt the data before uploading?
    • lisper 7y ago
      Because that doesn't solve the problem of not having an internet connection. Also, it's not that I don't trust providers not to read my data, it's that I don't trust them not to lose it. I have no way of knowing what goes on behind the scenes at a cloud provider. For all I know, they are one hardware failure (or one financial failure) away from losing my data.
      • shawnz 7y ago
        They have obligations to their corporate customers which would require them to have architecture in place to protect against that kind of scenario better than any home user could on their own. Plus you could hedge your bets by just backing up to multiple providers (i.e. Google Drive, Onedrive, Dropbox). What are the chances that all three would fail simultaneously?
      • dorfsmay 7y ago
        I use a drive cloud provider (pcloud) which I backup with a backup provider (backblaze). The advantage of using providers is that they have paid employee to take care of everyday operations. I'll argue that using 2 different provider protects me from losing all my data if one of them screws up royally, or their business go under. Also, this is my dog-fooding of the solution I recommend to my non-tech family and friends.