Comment by nipperkinfeet
5 days ago
That's horrible! I've heard similar horror stories about other cloud synchronization software. Lesson learned. I don't trust the cloud, and to rent someone else's server. I create my own local backups and don't rely on anyone else. I've been doing the same thing for over 26 years and have never lost anything.
Using cloud services, in addition to local backups, is an easy way to guard against events that could damage both your PC and your local backups. Such as fire, flooding, electrical failures, or theft
> Using cloud services, in addition to local backups
That's exactly what he had - it didn't safeguard against file loss, but caused it.
But local solutions can also cause file loss, if you don’t know how to use them correctly.
For example, rsync and rclone will happily overwrite/delete your files if you mess up the argument order.
The problem with OneDrive is not that it is cloud-based, but rather that its design is somewhere between baffling and intentionally user-hostile
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Only because he didn’t understand how “syncing” works, and deleted the files in the cloud which deleted them off his computer. The “file loss” was pure user error.
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