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Originally Posted by Graham
I hope one of those is always off site and you swap them round regularly.
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Of course. That is exactly what I do.
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Originally Posted by kennyc
Fine, why are you so upset with those who choose otherwise?
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Because I've heard of quite some people who place all of their trust in one single company or type of technology lose a lot of stuff. Haven't you heard of something.... oh... I don't know... DropBox banning users that use Calibre2odps, and/or store their ebooks in the cloud, because they can't determine if the books are legitimate or not? Do a search and see.
Sometimes, also Google closes accounts.
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In reality, I discovered, Google assumes no responsibility over user data nor is it required by law to do so. In the same notice informing me that it had disabled my account, Google told me for the first time that it reserves the right to “terminate your account at any time, for any reason, with or without notice.”
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If a company puts that into their TOS, then I definitely DON'T want to store my data there, not even as a backup measure, let alone as primary storage.
Just stuffing everything into the cloud without having a backup plan is very dangerous, but I see more and more people doing it. They just trust Google/DropBox or whatever to not lose their stuff or revoke access.