Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/18

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Subject: [Leica] Digital academia
From: tgray at 125px.com (Tim Gray)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:20:08 -0400
References: <738445.1885.qm@web111708.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <20100317201614.GB417@selenium.125px.com> <20100318144905.GC22732@mars-attacks.org> <25D10E3B-53AC-4092-9406-F91C2C2C8D8D@aotera.org>

On Mar 18, 2010 at 11:30 AM -0400, Spencer Cheng wrote:
> You are assuming that a) the company that runs the 'cloud' is still around 
> in 10-N years and b) you still have S/W that can interpret all that 
> (non-textual) data. Keeping the data accessible is only 1/2 of the battle.

Also assumes *they* do their backup correctly.  In the early 2000's, before 
the 'cloud' was around, I had a website on a professional host.  Their 
server took a dump.  That's ok, they had backups I thought.  Nope, two or 
three (I forget) of their backups were also corrupted.  While they did have 
copy that was about 1 month out of date, I just used the copy of the site I 
stored locally, so all was not lost.

What was the name of the online photographer's service that shut down last 
year with like 1 day of notice?


Replies: Reply from spencer at aotera.org (Spencer Cheng) ([Leica] Digital academia)
In reply to: Message from profmason at yahoo.com (John Edwin Mason) ([Leica] Digital academia)
Message from tgray at 125px.com (Tim Gray) ([Leica] Digital academia)
Message from boklm at mars-attacks.org (nicolas vigier) ([Leica] Digital academia)
Message from spencer at aotera.org (Spencer Cheng) ([Leica] Digital academia)