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I don't wanna victim blame, but I don't understand how people could put their entire body of work on a cloud service and not make the effort to get several exte

I don't wanna victim blame, but I don't understand how people could put their entire body of work on a cloud service and not make the effort to get several external drives to have some redundancy. All my work is probably like 50GB, but I have it backed up on an external drive AND the cloud. It's like self preservation instinct is missing. 3rd party services are fallible, even when they don't make business decisions that screw with you, and nobody is gonna care about your livelihood more than yourself.

shkkmo 3y ago
Multiple backups are significantly easier with 50gb that with 250tb. Additionally, any external drives he had were seized by the FBI so he would have needed two cloud backups.
judge2020 3y ago
Because storing 240TB is expensive even locally. From https://diskprices.com/ https://diskprices.com/, if he gets a good deal of $8/tb, it's going to cost $2,000 just for the storage of his data, and getting the data onto it would require a setup that can address and power 20 drives (assuming 12TB drives), unless they use a few USB HDD Sata adapters to archive it all.
pwg 3y ago
> All my work is probably like 50GB, but I have it backed up on an external drive AND the cloud. > It's like self preservation instinct is missing. And if, as happened in TFA, you are raided by the FBI and all your local computer hardware (which includes your external drive) is confiscated as evidence and hauled away to an FBI warehouse somewhere, you will have only that cloud backup left. This is where the journalist found themselves. And then, after the FBI raid, if the cloud then says they are dropping you and deleting your cloud data, what backups do you now have (remember, your external drive is still in the FBI warehouse somewhere as "evidence")?
PeterisP 3y ago
All his off-cloud hardware was seized by the FBI.
matkoniecz 3y ago
They had local copies. They were stolen by FBI. It is in the linked article.

shkkmo 3y ago

Multiple backups are significantly easier with 50gb that with 250tb. Additionally, any external drives he had were seized by the FBI so he would have needed two cloud backups.

judge2020 3y ago

Because storing 240TB is expensive even locally. From https://diskprices.com/ https://diskprices.com/, if he gets a good deal of $8/tb, it's going to cost $2,000 just for the storage of his data, and getting the data onto it would require a setup that can address and power 20 drives (assuming 12TB drives), unless they use a few USB HDD Sata adapters to archive it all.

pwg 3y ago

> All my work is probably like 50GB, but I have it backed up on an external drive AND the cloud. > It's like self preservation instinct is missing. And if, as happened in TFA, you are raided by the FBI and all your local computer hardware (which includes your external drive) is confiscated as evidence and hauled away to an FBI warehouse somewhere, you will have only that cloud backup left. This is where the journalist found themselves. And then, after the FBI raid, if the cloud then says they are dropping you and deleting your cloud data, what backups do you now have (remember, your external drive is still in the FBI warehouse somewhere as "evidence")?

PeterisP 3y ago

All his off-cloud hardware was seized by the FBI.

matkoniecz 3y ago

They had local copies. They were stolen by FBI. It is in the linked article.