Comment by usernew
3 years ago
But that's my point, to answer the question asked. You're mirroring between two cloud providers, one cuts you off and you need to egress all your data ASAP from that provider, to a new one. If you have your primary local, you just push to the new provider free.
Example: my work places all our files, including your docs and desktop folder, on OneDrive. There is a local cache, but they don't actually let you do a full sync to local to minimize egress
Example: they replaced my laptop, I had about a TB of data generated on the old one. It's all in OneDrive. I power up the new laptop. I can't just sync everything to it - they disable that via policy. Every time I open something for the first time, it downloads. So if I wanted to say, copy all my crap to AWS. Now I have to Egress the whole thing from Azure.
Now, imagine you have more than a TB. Not arguing either way - just answering the question.
sure, i understand that. but it suggests that OneDrive may be convenient but ends up being expensive for lots of data. i have a root server, which means more work to set up, but i get 10TB traffic per month included in the hosting price. i am more likely to get in trouble with my local ISP if i download more than 1TB than with my hosting provider.
anyways, we obviously both agree that having a local copy is a good idea either way, and i appreciate your additional examples of the problems that one can run into with a remote only backup