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TV’s Frink said:

chyron8472 said:

TV’s Frink said:

chyron8472 said:

Still, if I were you I’d probably have cloud backup from Backblaze or something like that.

I don’t trust other people with my stuff. Two external hard drives to back my stuff up.

It’s the off-site part about cloud backup that I like. Protects against on-site property damage. Also, it automatically uploads changes to files without dicking around with backing up manually.

JEDIT: Although I suppose one could use bittorrent sync instead to backup to offsite, if that was the real issue. I use Backblaze for my server because it’s cheap, it’s easy, and available storage is unlimited (which is nice when I have 4.7 TB of data).

If ISIS bombs both my house and my office, which are many miles apart, I suspect I have larger problems than losing my edits, music, and pictures.

But once you’ve gotten by those problems, all your edits, music, and pictures are still gone.

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As is everything else, including probably my body and and the bodies of the rest of my family, so I don’t think a cloud backup is gonna do much for me at that point.

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FRINK HAS A BODY

FRINK ISN’T A COMPUTER CONFIRMED

ROBOT OVERLORDS NOW IS OUR TIME TO STRIKE

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TV’s Frink said:

As is everything else, including probably my body and and the bodies of the rest of my family, so I don’t think a cloud backup is gonna do much for me at that point.

If you were still alive your photos, edits, and whatever else would still be gone.

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I store my stuff on external hard drives and two different cloud accounts. If I lost it all then I’d just give up.

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Collipso said:

FRINK HAS A BODY

FRINK ISN’T A COMPUTER CONFIRMED

ROBOT OVERLORDS NOW IS OUR TIME TO STRIKE

ROBOT = COMPUTER + BODY

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moviefreakedmind said:

TV’s Frink said:

As is everything else, including probably my body and and the bodies of the rest of my family, so I don’t think a cloud backup is gonna do much for me at that point.

If you were still alive your photos, edits, and whatever else would still be gone.

Ok you’re right and you win. I will go upload all my shit to the cloud and then blow up my house and office.

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I don’t understand the hostility here. Losing all of your computer files would be a very bad thing.

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My files includes writing and personal journals and things. If I lost it all, I’d pretty much lose all that I care about.

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moviefreakedmind said:

I don’t understand the hostility here. Losing all of your computer files would be a very bad thing.

No hostility, I just don’t understand why I need to worry about losing two different external hard drives in two completely different locations. How is a cloud any better?

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call me paranoid but i don’t really trust the cloud. i prefer having the actual physical thing.

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Because if you lose one cloud, you’ve still got the other and the external hard drives and the computers. If you lose one hard drive, you’ve still got the others and the clouds, etc. etc. It’s just being safe.

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Collipso said:

call me paranoid but i don’t really trust the cloud. i prefer having the actual physical thing.

That’s why you have the actual physical thing as well as the cloud. I don’t trust either of them as adequate so I use them both.

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Also, if you do a lot of writing, it gets saved to the cloud when you save it on your computer, so if you lose the computer before putting it on the external hard drives then you don’t lose the progress you’ve made since the last time you saved it on the external drives.

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Collipso said:

call me paranoid but i don’t really trust the cloud. i prefer having the actual physical thing.

This. I find it much more likely that someone will steal my cloud than my hard drive, or that my cloud will suddenly just vanish, or the company that controls my cloud will just vanish.

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moviefreakedmind said:

Collipso said:

call me paranoid but i don’t really trust the cloud. i prefer having the actual physical thing.

That’s why you have the actual physical thing as well as the cloud. I don’t trust either of them as adequate so I use them both.

How many hard drives do I need before I don’t need the cloud anymore? Is seven enough?

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TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Collipso said:

call me paranoid but i don’t really trust the cloud. i prefer having the actual physical thing.

That’s why you have the actual physical thing as well as the cloud. I don’t trust either of them as adequate so I use them both.

How many hard drives do I need before I don’t need the cloud anymore? Is seven enough?

None are enough. No amount of clouds or hard drives are “enough” in the sense that you don’t have to worry about potentially losing everything.

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Shit, burn that to a gold record, stick it in Elon Musk, and launch that shit outta our solar system.

You’re gonna feel real silly when our local galactic neighborhood goes to shit and you lose your files.

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I’ll be dead so I can live with losing them at that point. 😉

If there was a way for me to save my files in outer space, I would do it.

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moviefreakedmind said:

I’ll be dead so I can live with losing them at that point. 😉

If there was a way for me to save my files in outer space, I would do it.

You can do this right now and it’s fairly cheap. Just talking to a ham radio Man. The waves keep on going.

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I can’t take a long-distance walk without developing a terrible ache in the middle/right of my back.

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You probably could if you did it 3-5 times a week.