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> the most common way for a person fill offsite and separate media is to use a Cloud Backup of some kind. Which has a different failure mode to disks/NAS/files
by bigiain 5y ago
> the most common way for a person fill offsite and separate media is to use a Cloud Backup of some kind.
Which has a different failure mode to disks/NAS/fileservers.
AWS/Dropbox/Google/BackBlaze et al. are all at risk from credit card and/or financial failures. I can go broke and be unable to pay my bills, but my hard drives will still store my data.
Google and AWS (to a lesser extent) are also occasionally subject to arbitrary and capricious account revocation. Google specifically worries me there, there are way too many stories of people have problems with, say, they Google Play developer account or their YouTube account, and finding they're cut off from their gmail and google drive access, with pretty much zero way if fixing it unless you have a million twitter followers or a Google insider to go to bat for you.
- syshum 5y agoSure, but there is where the 2nd copy comes into play in the 3-2-1. 3 Copies, 2 Media, 1 off site. One should always have a local copy of their backups.