Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don't even get me started on privacy and security of data stored in a cloud. :) [Note: all these problems have some solution(s) but it's just much harder than what the average Joe would envision]. Regards, Spencer On Mar 18, 2010, at 15:20, Tim Gray wrote: > 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 did have copy that was about 1 month out of date, I just used the copy of 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? >