Comment on An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card

morto@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Omgpwnies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Cloud storage allows normal people to better realize a proper 3-2-1 backup strategy though, since it facilitates offsite storage.

  That being said, my very important stuff is backed up to more than one cloud provider, just in case.

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  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Cloud storage is fine for your offsite copy as long as you encrypt your data before uploading it. The problem is that a lot of people are using it as their only copy.

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    • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I consider it insane to not retain a local backup of anything that is important.

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  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Absolutely, then people go and delete the other copies leaving just the cloud, and think that it’s somehow fine.

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    • Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      then people Microsoft go and delete the other copies leaving just the cloud,

      Line Microsoft Onedrive repeatedly forcefully and silently enabling on-demand constantly, then occasionally fucking up and deleting unsynced files

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      • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yeah stuff like that, but also the locally synced copy I would not trust no matter what as sync software can suddenly delete or corrupt files. Best to have at least 2 actual backups in place.

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  • plyth@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That being said, my very important stuff is backed up to more than one cloud provider, just in case.

    The way things develop, you can’t be sure that you are not banned on all accounts at the same time for political reasons.

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    • Omgpwnies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Which is the reason for the local backup on my NAS - which is also in a RAID 5 configuration and can survive one drive failure with no loss of data, as well as the copies stored on the original devices. There would need to be a series of unfortunate events for me to lose everything.

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  • johsny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Personally I don’t think the tradeoff is worth while. I put nothing remotely personal on other peoples computers. I’d rather lose everything. But it is not actually that big a problem, my brother has a backup that I update once a month in his safe in his house, and I have his. Should be good enough.

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    • Omgpwnies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That still fulfils the offsite requirement of 3-2-1, so you’re still good there. If you both have a NAS, then you can be each other’s “cloud provider” as well.

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  • morto@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    But in that case, it’s not a migration to cloud, but just an addition of the cloud as a resource

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  • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m sure I’m stating the obvious, but you can do both. I backup my important self-hosted data to the cloud (B2, in my case).

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• nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  How long before an AI company buys all the hard drive supplies and foces us to use cloud storage?

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  • morto@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Cloud storage? Oh, that’s the wrong mindset. With the “agi”, you won’t ever need to store data, because everything you need can be generated on-demand /j

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      gpt, play doom for me

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• phaedrus@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  In the general public’s eye: convenience is literally everything

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• deacon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The day “my personal cloud” stopped exclusively referring to my farts was a very good day for me.

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  • morto@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Now I will be careful if someone wants to show me their personal cloud

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• ILoveUnions@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Cloud storage is a good thing. Dependency on it is bad, and doubly so when it’s large corpos

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• X@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  …never put your entire life in the hands of a corporation!

  Tesla fans: have you lost your fucking mind

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