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Just because I have control, doesn't mean the data is safer. It's the practical realization that Google is likely to have a more recent, redundant backup of my
by mikedouglas 17y ago
Just because I have control, doesn't mean the data is safer.
It's the practical realization that Google is likely to have a more recent, redundant backup of my data than me. The amount of effort to ensure that P(losing my backup) < P(google losing a backup) isn't worth the effort except for a few very important pieces of data.
- SapphireSun 17y agoOf course your google account could always be disabled for some reason....
- mikedouglas 17y agoThat's true, and a much better reason than data loss.
- Frazzydee 17y agoIf you keep your mail on the server and download it using your client, then P(losing your backup & google losing the files) is much smaller than either one of those probabilities.