"The cloud" is perfect as a metaphor for on-line storage: diffuse, turbulent, evanescent, and often associated with unpleasant storms and destruction.
Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 3:29 AM, Bob W-PDML <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12 Nov 2014, at 07:58, Chris Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> >>> You also need an offsite strategy in case the Big Bad Wolf blows your house >>> down. >>> >>> You could shuffle a couple of backup drives between home and work once a >>> week, but this relies on you having the discipline to do it, and has the >>> weakness that at some point both backups are in the same place for a day, >>> and therefore a temptation for the BBW. >> >> Ah, you take the second drive to the backup location first so you've >> still got the files on your computers in the primary location. >> >>> >>> Or you could get some cloud storage and let your data trickle-feed up to >>> there. If you have cloud storage then you don't need your backup external >>> drive. >> >> You just need to think about how well and how long cloud services will >> look after your data. I've already lost a service that told me it >> would look after notes for ever. I managed to download everything >> before it went away, but it was a near miss. >>> > > Yes, I'm not suggesting they should be your only copy. Keep a copy at home > too. > > B > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
