Comment by fnord77

3 years ago

what do you suggest for cloud storage?

I've had better luck over the years with google drive to store my documents than a physical backup drive. But the thought of losing access to my account scares me

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gerdesj  3 years ago

You will always need backups, regardless of where your primary storage is. These backups could be local or remote.

You have to decide how important your data is. You might divide it into a few categories and decide what you can or cannot afford to lose for each category. For example your password database and family holiday pics are often more important than nearly everything else! Then you decide how much money to throw at all this. It's all a big risk assessment thing.

If you will insist on cloud then please use two of them or one and a local backup system. For really important stuff you can buy a brand that you have heard of 128GB USB stick for about £13 (just checked on Amazon). That's bugger all cash! Buy 10 of them.

Please take responsibility for your data. Use cloudy stuff for convenience but do not lose sight of who really is responsible for it - you.

usernew  3 years ago

I unfortunately can't answer that. My work gives me double-digit TB OneDrive, and if I need personal stuff on there, I put it in a password-protected 7z file. I don't actually use it all that much though. I just rsync between two laptops in the background and a copy of everything gets pushed to my phone when I plug in to charge at night. I only have about 500GB of data that I care about not losing - like a dump of all my emails in a pst going back 7 years, and some photos and personal video. Rsync does it all w/ 3 copies on local devices, and I don't think about it.