What if the data is leaked/compromised?
Comment on what if your cloud=provider gets hacked ?
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
So … conclussion ???
Have backups.
Only 2 copies of your data stored in the same place isn’t enough, you want 3 at minimum and at least 1 should be somewhere else.
SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 8 months ago
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 8 months ago
That’s why you use encryption.
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Backups are usually encrypted from most popular backup programs, either by default or as an option (restic, borg, duplicati, veeam, etc…). So that would take care of someone else getting their hands on your backup data.
For local data on my devices, my laptop is encrypted with bitlocker, and my Android phone is by default. My desktop at home is not though.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Indeed. Whatever you put in a cloud needs backups. Not only at the cloud provider, but also “at home”.
There has been a case of a cloud provider shutting down a few months ago. The provider informed their customers, but only the accounting departments that were responsible for the payments. And several of those companies’ accounting departments did not really understand the message except for “needs no longer be paid”.
So for the rest of the company, the service went down hard after a grace period, when the provider deleted all customer files, including the backups…