Topband: Noise in the Shack - A new noise!

[Mike Waters]

I don't know about you, but we have data that is far too important not to
make multiple backup copies ourselves. Think about whether you are willing
to take a of risk losing it all because "the cloud" had a glitch or closed
their doors.

A large cloud service corporation has made news headlines more than once
because they permanently lost some of their customer's data. "The cloud"
might be a convenient addition to external hard drives and optical media,
but I would never trust my data exclusively to any third party regardless
of how they backup the data.

We have years of work and our means of living backed up on several external
drives, DVDs/CD-ROMs, and memory sticks (some of which are in a safe
deposit box). Not everyone needs all that, I realize. But if the data you
have on your computers is important enough that it needs to be backed up, I
suggest that you don't solely rely on any third party.

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Bob K6UJ <k6uj at pacbell.net> wrote:

> I'm with Bill,  I still use external drives for backups for the same
> reason, but am tempted with "the cloud"
> Maybe our worries are unfounded ?  Do the "cloud" systems back up the data
>  (on external hard drives, :-)       ?
>