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Actually good point that should be the first rule 0. It's not a backup unless you know it restores 1. Always take backups 2. Backup the backup
A few month ago someone here on HN stated "People don't want backups. People want restores". Can't recall who, though...
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What is the meaning of 'sharecropper' in this context? I'm aware of sharecropping in the agricultural sense[1]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharecropping
Working someone else's land, rather than owning your own. i.e. rather than using Blogger, host your own blog. This is, of course, beyond many people, which is why they use sites that handle the hosting for them. But in that situation you should be _really_ aware that they may decide to take away "your" land at any point, and thus you should keep backups.
Since a few years loggin into Blogspot (former Blogger) became very difficult for me - I am constantly being bounced between the authentication pages, and most of the time I end up with an error. I think Google is just preparing for discontinuing it.
I can never understand why people don't host important stuff/stuff they care about themselves. Webhosting and domains are cheap and even someone with little technical knowledge can create a website. There are tons of options to do that.
There is a certain feeling of frustration that comes from doing an unfamiliar and difficult technical task when you aren't at all used to doing such things. My wife's best explaination of it is that it feels like gears in your mind are grinding without oil: not moving smoothly and generating a lot of heat. I infer that many other people feel this way about web hosting, or services like weebly would not exist. The rea…
https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791?hl=en
It's hard to convince people, like my wife, that putting a NAS appliance in the house and explaining how to use it would be better but stories like this help.
Cue sad trombone.
This had to happen to me a couple of times before I got to be a real Nazi about backup. I'd consider myself a fairly smart guy too, it's just one of those things you never want to take care of properly...until you lose stuff, then you get it.
Poor guy, hope he can get his work back but it doesn't seem too likely.
Since a few years loggin into Blogspot (former Blogger) became very difficult for me - I am constantly being bounced between the authentication pages, and most of the time I end up with an error. I think Google is just preparing for discontinuing it.
There are still a ton of pages in Blogspot. Closing Blogspot would be a Geocities-closure-level event, or bigger.
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I know what you mean. But there may be autistic people reading this.
I understand you worries, I'm focusing on the characteristic rather than people with that condition
Since a few years loggin into Blogspot (former Blogger) became very difficult for me - I am constantly being bounced between the authentication pages, and most of the time I end up with an error. I think Google is just preparing for discontinuing it.
There are still a ton of pages in Blogspot. Closing Blogspot would be a Geocities-closure-level event, or bigger.
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I think the GP meant to say that you can prevent future damage to some extent through regular backups. When things have already gone wrong, it's too late to start making backups. The cloud is no different from physical media in that regard, even if the data still exists in some data centre, you can't access it any more.
I'm not aware of any tool to automate regular backups of cloud services, even though many of them have “download everything” buttons like this now (awesome). That sounds like a thing that should exist.