Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,uk.d-i-y Subject: Re: Opensource slowing down? "GoogleDrive" private cloud Date: 12 Mar 2015 09:39:56 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <4khjsb-2oj.ln1@squidward.dionic.net> <54f73bc4$0$38615$b1db1813$5ba256c5@news.astraweb.com> <7p5ksb-n64.ln1@squidward.dionic.net> <55014cb2$0$64285$b1db1813$1367588f@news.astraweb.com> <20150312091413.0d31eda3@debian> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net bCoMHEB6zP1Ct4useVVLEA9xgk2eTzTQCPsu3IyaYV1TEsafmu Cancel-Lock: sha1:NIsGZHo+HpaXwdclI0wS1vX529I= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:14027 On 2015-03-12, Folderol wrote: > On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 08:22:13 +0000 > "Dennis@home" wrote: > >> On 11/03/2015 22:42, John F wrote: >> >> > Exactly - and you can purchase a 1TB drive and a fireproof safe to put it in >> > for less than the cost of a years rental on a good cloud server >> >> As long as you know one hdd in a fireproof safe isn't a good backup. >> >> The disk will break if the safe isn't waterproof. >> The disk will break when the safe falls as the building crumples >> The disk will break when the safe gets too hot as the fire rating is for >> paper and it costs a lot more for one that will keep a disk safe. >> It doesn't stop some scrote pinching your computer and the safe. >> The disk will fail while copying the backup just as the main disk fails. >> You copy any data errors caused by software to the backup and lose the data. >> >> Do you want anymore reasons why its not a good idea? >> > What a load of twaddle. If you're posting from elsewhere than uk.d-i-y, you might like to know that dennis is a well known idiot. We keep him about so we can laugh at him and poke him with sticks. Virtually everything he posts is crap. -- Today is Sweetmorn, the 71st day of Chaos in the YOLD 3181 I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.