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| quote: | Originally posted by Allied Nations
also think about this- im thinking of backing crucial data up for the 30-100 year period here, not the 3-5 year.
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| quote: | Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
If you are serious about backing up, tape or hardrive, I would sat cloud is ok for projects as well as long as you keep a physical backup. |
This.
If you're looking for a long-term solution, the best option IMO is a combination (redundancy).
Connections will only get faster and the cloud is starting to be available from every place possible and every modern device imaginable.
Not to mention cloud storage getting cheaper as it gets more common, in some cases even free.
As a plus you'll have access to your data whenever you want.
Surely you can think up some benefits from this.
Back up to both tape/hard-drives and something like Dropbox, AWS (Amazon),
Backblaze or [FILL IN ANY CLOUD SERVICE YOU TRUST].
Depending on your connection now it might take a while to get all of your most important data on a cloud service.
The main benefits will become clear in a couple of years though...
No one can vouch for the existence of these cloud services in 10 years let alone 30-100 years,
but think of these periods as chunks in which your data is as good as safe.
Surely within the next 10 years there will be some other solution (based on the cloud or not) that trumps it in every aspect.
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