re-install

[Liam Proven]

On 22 March 2013 08:43, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> Oh lordy......and you trust this Cloud thingie not to be hacked, not to
> crash and wipe out all your "irreplaceable documents/files" and other data,
> not to sell your data to the guvvmint or advertising agencies or to private
> investigation companies?
>
> Lordy, lordy, but you are such a trusting soul, you are :-) .
>
> And, out of curiosity, how much per month do you pay for this "privilege"?
> Much less than the one-off cost of an external 120GB HDD or a 120GB USB
> memory stick?

A 120GB disk is small and very cheap these days - but that means old &
thus failure-prone. Any spinning medium is still highly failure-prone.

A 120GB Flash drive, OTOH, is quite big and still expensive...
£60-£100 here. And they fail too and when they do it's with no
warning.

Even if you have several, if the house burns down or you get burgled,
they all go with it.

Neither onsite nor offsite backup alone is good, but the happy medium
is some cheap instances of both, working together.

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