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Although I haven't implemented it yet, the full plan would be to store the external drive off-site. Granted, that's a much larger inconvenience. Of course clou
by kohanz 12y ago
Although I haven't implemented it yet, the full plan would be to store the external drive off-site. Granted, that's a much larger inconvenience.
Of course cloud storage provides more convenient redundancy, but would it be completely safe to rely on it 100%? Is there no scenario under which Apple or Amazon could end up contacting you to say "Sorry, we lost your data and cannot recover it"? It is very unlikely, but so is your house burning down.
- apetresc 12y agoI can't speak to Apple, but I know for a fact that AWS' claimed 11 nines SLA (99.999999999%) for S3 is purely theoretical - in practice, they've never lost an object yet.
- kohanz 12y agoFair point, but it only takes 1 failure for a catastrophe. I suppose my question would be: is cloud-storage alone enough?
- pauldino 12y agoI've read differently... > Yes. On 12-21-12 Amazon notified us that 4 of our files (out of hundreds of millions) were lost due to a bug encountered while performing some sort of migration. 2 are gone forever and 2 are truncated forever. I've been using S3 for several years at Mixbook and Smule before that--this is the first loss I've experienced. http://www.quora.com/Has-Amazon-S3-ever-lost-data-permanently/answer/Scott-Bonds http://www.quora.com/Has-Amazon-S3-ever-lost-data-permanentl...
- skuhn 12y agoUntrue, S3 does (extremely rarely) lose objects.