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'It had just vanished' – the shock when 'clouds' fail
- leed25d 4y agoThis article is a thunderous warning of the importance of backup. In the early days of USENET I remember in one of the DEC newsgroups a question that asked how to recover an inadvertently deleted file on a PDP-11 on (I believe) an RSX-D environment. The response read: "First, mount your backup tape..."
- zinekeller 4y agoPoster here - just noting that the title as of this comment has been changed to "'It had just vanished' - the shock when *tech fails*" [emphasis added], which is probably appropriate to a more general audience but I have decided to leave the title as-is because people know what cloud means in this context.
- simonblack 4y agoAfter a disaster with DropBox way back in 2011, most likely caused by my not understanding the DropBox algorithm and misconfiguring my systems, I stopped using 'The Cloud' for my storage. Instead, I set up my own servers that were available via the Internet. Twelve-odd years later, I am perfectly happy with my home-grown solutions and am not subject to the whims or failings of some uncaring third-party.