But you should never trust a cloud service to keep the only copy of your data.
You should never trust any backup solution to be the only copy of your data.
Cloud backups are fine as an absolute last resort for if your house burns down and you lose all local copies of your data.
I assume you backup locally at home. Do you ever travel away from home and create files? Do you just roll the dice and assume your device with you will never have a technical failure or be stolen?
Of course, the point of a backup is that it’s not your only copy.
My comment on that was in reference to backups alone, not the originals. Perhaps the 3-2-1 backup philosophy isn’t quite as known outside if the IT world.
And I don’t worry about making backups while I’m traveling, as nothing I have is so critical that losing a few weeks of files would be devastating.
For many of us that isn’t the case. We may have days, weeks, or months before returning home. How about your vacation pictures you take on your phone while you are on that trip? You’re okay if those go away before you get home?
You should never trust any backup solution to be the only copy of your data.
I assume you backup locally at home. Do you ever travel away from home and create files? Do you just roll the dice and assume your device with you will never have a technical failure or be stolen?
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My comment on that was in reference to backups alone, not the originals. Perhaps the 3-2-1 backup philosophy isn’t quite as known outside if the IT world.
For many of us that isn’t the case. We may have days, weeks, or months before returning home. How about your vacation pictures you take on your phone while you are on that trip? You’re okay if those go away before you get home?