i find that interpretation a bit of a stretch. you could have expressed that more clearly. especially given that the obvious solution is to have local backups.

i find that interpretation a bit of a stretch. you could have expressed that more clearly. especially given that the obvious solution is to have local backups. what else could you do? i have been discussing this on HN before in the context of a multi TB archive of photos and videos (part of which happened to be for a film project, so similar considerations apply). raid, external disk, and remote copy. for the film footage, everyone working with it has a full copy too, even if they don't need all of it. just in case. if you need to work with the data there is pretty much no other option.