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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Obviously, but the chance that one of the services you mention goes down is a lot smaller. If a service goes down, it's doable to switch to something else, without too many ill effects; maybe some discomfort. If a cloud service goes down and you relied on it as your only place of storage, you'll lose all your data instantly.
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I think that cloud infrastructure is more robust and general infrastructure less robust that this implies. IOW I don't agree the chances are less.
And I think the equivalent "discomfort" is temporarily losing access to the service, maybe losing *some* data. It also means a little prepared-ness like having an alternate backup, or making sure e.g. Dropbox is sync-ing to multiple computers. This is equivalent to making sure you have canned goods, candles and torches.
I don't want to dissuade anyone from making backups but you make it sound like cloud services are really flaky and that's just not true. Know what does tend to be flaky? Home-grown backup schemes. Mostly because they rely on individuals who are not experts, have cheap equipment and are forgetful/fallible.