Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.karotte.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Nigel Wade Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,uk.d-i-y Subject: Re: Opensource slowing down? "GoogleDrive" private cloud Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 09:47:09 +0000 Lines: 41 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net DTKchA3LhNmHxn9R1pntvwFLwvP++UMKRZfPeHw0lTLY9WL8Ze Cancel-Lock: sha1:kdIshOl+bdVM7lQDbSnqGTzCMQ8= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130329 Thunderbird/17.0.5 In-Reply-To: <55014cb2$0$64285$b1db1813$1367588f@news.astraweb.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:14030 On 12/03/15 08:22, 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. Why would anyone get a fireproof safe which wasn't waterproof? > The disk will break when the safe falls as the building crumples Put the safe on the ground floor. Use an SSD. > 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. Anything will break if it gets too hot. But it will last a lot longer than if it wasn't in a fireproof safe. > It doesn't stop some scrote pinching your computer and the safe. The weight does. My fireproof safe weighs 70Kg. > The disk will fail while copying the backup just as the main disk fails. No it won't, > You copy any data errors caused by software to the backup and lose the data. As you do with any backup, including copying to the cloud. > > Do you want anymore reasons why its not a good idea? > Not one of your stated reasons means it is not a good idea.