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Baby pictures.. That's really sad… Reminds me of when the executive editor of wired magazine, Matt Honan, trusted all of his baby pictures and movies to iCloud only for it to get hacked and have it all deleted. Always have that off-line back up.
3 copies, 2 different media, 1 off-site
But also, what a fucking disgrace, Microsoft
Edit to add: cloud plus synced hard drives do not count as separate copies
This amounts to "We deleted all your data in order to keep it safe." WTF.
#2 This is the personal version of what europe is going through now, with the realization that those cloudy cloudy services may be convenient, but don't bet your life on one.
Keep a local backup!!!
In fact, local backup first, with the cloud as a backup of your backup.
This is why I always ensure I have a big enough HD. I've used my current cloud backup for almost 15 years, and am really happy with it. But I never rely on them exclusively. If they go out of business tomorrow, I still have all the data locally! And of course, if my HD crashes, I sync back all the really important stuff. (OK, I would lose prior revisions of a file - I can live with that).
I don't know about in this case, but I've heard of both Apple and Microsoft "cloudifying" then deleting local files just found on your drive. I think with Apple, it was music. The lack of control with closed platforms is staggering. Best make those offline bsckups.
I assume Apple give you control as well.
Sane people like me use Linux, though.
> Best make those offline bsckups.
I have that too! A separate HD that I mount and clone to once a week.
> "This action is irreversible and ensures that your data remains protected." This amounts to "We deleted all your data in order to keep it safe." WTF.
Check the TOS, it was never the user’s account.
This is why I always ensure I have a big enough HD. I've used my current cloud backup for almost 15 years, and am really happy with it. But I never rely on them exclusively. If they go out of business tomorrow, I still have all the data locally! And of course, if my HD crashes, I sync back all the really important stuff. (OK, I would lose prior revisions of a file - I can live with that).
I don't know about in this case, but I've heard of both Apple and Microsoft "cloudifying" then deleting local files just found on your drive. I think with Apple, it was music. The lack of control with closed platforms is staggering. Best make those offline bsckups.
However, if you have an external drive at /Volumes/MYSHTUFF, you do not point iCloud at /Volumes/MYSHTUFF. You maintain a copy of ~/Documents at /Volume/MYSHTUFF/Documents. Maybe you use that as your primary work space an sync to ~/Documents periodically. For some apps and workflows (Logic projects, git repos), you don't want your live copy to be the cloud-sync'd copy.
Same with Apple Music. Keep your MP3s on an external drive, place a copy on the internal drive, drag the internal copy onto the Music app.
This is why I always ensure I have a big enough HD. I've used my current cloud backup for almost 15 years, and am really happy with it. But I never rely on them exclusively. If they go out of business tomorrow, I still have all the data locally! And of course, if my HD crashes, I sync back all the really important stuff. (OK, I would lose prior revisions of a file - I can live with that).
This is why I always ensure I have a big enough HD. I've used my current cloud backup for almost 15 years, and am really happy with it. But I never rely on them exclusively. If they go out of business tomorrow, I still have all the data locally! And of course, if my HD crashes, I sync back all the really important stuff. (OK, I would lose prior revisions of a file - I can live with that).
Well it's not a 'backup' if it's a single point of failure, something you rely on exclusively, is it!
Man, I love the PlayStation is going purely digital, who needs physical media for the games or movies you buy, nothing like this ever happens
(And arguably why not download the game assets or whatever if you're going to necessarily play connected anyway.)