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Originally Posted by RainingLemur
But, I'm still a bit wary of cloud storage for serious stuff. I use dropbox for some ebooks, picture sharing, and the occasional work file I need to pick up at home and on my phone... But, past that, I try not to use it a whole lot. And, when I do, I make sure I've got local copies of it on at LEAST 2 different machines.
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And make sure those copies are NOT the sync'd copies, as they'll sync to deleted on all machines, if deleted in one place.
cloud is great for secondary backup and sharing between devices, but mostly not good for permanent storage. Look at Box - works great on the Kindle, but I can't get anything into it from my desktop (the work-around to see it as a drive is too cluncky and it keeps disconnecting long before files get copied to it, unlike dropbox). So, I have lots of storage, but keep about three files there.
I keep more on dropbox (but can run into an issue if you have multiple accounts and use sycn'd folders, running out of space early).
But, for real backup, I have: hard drive, SD card (and often a CD or DVD, as well). Plus multiple computers....