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I hope you had local copies! All cloud storage should be treated as ephemeral (some more than others, particularly google). It will change terms or go away at
by jjav 6y ago
I hope you had local copies!
All cloud storage should be treated as ephemeral (some more than others, particularly google). It will change terms or go away at some point.
Only local storage owned by you is actually, well, owned by you. If it is something that matters, keep it locally.
- hetspookjee 6y agoLocal storage doesn't mean a lot these days anymore. Good luck with your DRM'd products when the validating server goes offline.
- jjav 6y agoThat is something else to be aware of, you're right. I only buy non-DRM content. Ideally, DVDs or CDs I'll rip myself (then the physical media is a second layer of backup). Most of my storage volume is my own photography though. RAW files take a lot of space.
- i_am_proteus 6y agoLocal copies of 4x5 film don't have any DRM.
- MattPalmer1086 6y agoLocal copies ftw for sure, and it's not just free or cheap cloud providers you have to worry about Following hard disk failure last week, I attempted to recover only about 1Gb of data from SpiderOak. Without going in to all the roadblocks, bugs and strange design decisions that exist when recovering data from them, I'm yet to recover anything worth having. Been a customer for over 8 years. I guess the old maxim is true; an untested backup is worthless. I managed to recover most data from various local backups I had lying around. That's the direction I'm going to go now, with a physical snapshot off-site every now and again. Not perfect, but much less hassle than what I've just been through, and also cheaper.