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Never trust anyone but yourself with valuable files like family photos. I don't care if they promise 110% uptime and reliability. The files you really care ab
by acabal 14y ago
Never trust anyone but yourself with valuable files like family photos. I don't care if they promise 110% uptime and reliability. The files you really care about, in the very practical end, are your own responsibility regardless of how much money you pay to other people. You can sue them till you're blue but it won't get your files back.
To that extent I keep my important files backed up not just in Dropbox, but also to Crashplan, and to a spinning-rust hard drive especially kept for backups that I protect in my home. That's three points of failure I can recover from if something goes wrong; and if all three fail at once, then I probably have worse things to worry about, like the zombie apocalypse.
- Bud 14y agoIf you really care about photos, you will print them out, and put them in a photo album, and print them again, and put them in a safe deposit box or mail them to some relatives.
- andrewljohnson 14y agoThe last person I trust with valuable files like family photos is myself. I am a bad sysadmin, bad at back-ups, bad at security, bad at redundancy. And I would guess that describes 99.99% of people who care about family photos.
- acabal 14y agoWell, that's why I trust two other companies, plus myself. I don't know, doing basic backups aren't super-hard for someone who's reading HN. My setup is really just a regular Linux box with a 1TB HDD sitting in a closet of mine, with dynamic dns pointing to my own domain (not even a strict necessity), and I rsync it whenever I have new data like photos. That box in turn syncs to Crashplan and Dropbox, which is automatic. Yeah rsync and the concept of a backup PC is beyond mere mortals, but for those of us here--if Dropbox (or any service) is your only backup, I think you can only blame yourself.