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RE: Let this be a lesson ...
by darknexus on Thu 2nd Feb 2012 06:25
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RE: Let this be a lesson ...
by laffer1 on Thu 2nd Feb 2012 08:18
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Cloud based storage has been marketed in such a way that people believe it's safe.
When I was younger, I worked at an ISP that advertised daily tape backups for their web hosting. We didn't even own a tape drive and there were no backups of the Linux servers. I eventually was made an NT sys admin and started backing up files on my local desktop system (which had it's own dangers if I got malware). After this experience, I don't trust anything.
RE: Let this be a lesson ...
by Mellin on Fri 3rd Feb 2012 19:36
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Let this be a lesson to everyone that you should NEVER put important data in the cloud without having a backup. This goes for email, contacts, and whatever else. Even when a site isn't shut down by the government, you never know when there's going to be a catastrophic failure and/or the site will close up shop overnight and take your data with it.
I suppose the cloud is a good place to keep backups of stuff, but really... when did people get the impression that their data was safe in the cloud?