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This is extremely concerning. I have several of my daughter's childhood videos on YT as private videos and several hundreds of GBs of pictures in Google photos.
by kc10 5y ago
This is extremely concerning. I have several of my daughter's childhood videos on YT as private videos and several hundreds of GBs of pictures in Google photos. And I literally don't have any backup for all this content.
I previously used external drives, but I moved them to the cloud so they are easily accessible and not have the risk of hardware failures. I guess not a good idea to just rely on cloud providers for important stuff.
- root_axis 5y ago> I guess not a good idea to just rely on cloud providers for important stuff Certainly not, but if you're going to rely on cloud providers at all, definitely don't rely on ones that you aren't paying since they have no obligation to ensure your data stays online. If you're paying for your hosting you have established a legal contract that protects you from capricious access loss like the one described in the OP.
- pvaldes 5y agoDo a google takeout. Now. Is good for you and is good for Google not having to bear the unique responsibility over your memories. Win-win.
- Too 5y agoUse the 321 rule. 3 backups, 2 different media, 1 of them off site. You should keep your external drive backups. “Cloud” gives you the off site, but by itself from the point of a user it is just 1 media and 1 backup. Even if they likely have a lot more internally.