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[Kevin Wood]

All my photos are on photobucket..... that way I can always remotely access them if my PC decides it would prefer to be a potato for any reason 

I was talking to someone who had an extensive photo gallery on one of the popular photo sharing sites. I think it might even have been a paid-for service.

One day the whole lot disappeared. He got on the phone to their tech support and the conversation was along the lines of:

"Where has my account gone?"
"Erm.. It's been deleted due to inappropriate content"
"But my speciality is landscape photography"
"Hmm. Let me see.. Ahh! I can see the problem. We had a complaint about an account with a similar name to yours and deleted the wrong one. Sorry. Anything else I can help you with today?"
"Can you please reactivate my account?"
"Oh, we didn't suspend it. We deleted it. Sorry."
"Can't you restore it from a backup?"
"Backup? Nope. Sorry."

OK, he had copies of his photos locally, but his work had been linked-to widely on the internet and he sold quite a few photos on the back of that.. all gone, as the links went dead and even a fresh account wouldn't have helped that.

With free stuff you get what you pay for.

if you want something doing right....

[Webby the Bear]

Ooooh! that's not good! 

[Ever Ready]

There is an old saying in the world of computers 'The question is not will my hard drive/s die, it is when will my hard drives die?

No system is 100% fool proof, we should how ever take the measures to back up our data that befits said data, say you work in a mission critical environment then your back up systems should be as robust as is possible

On the other hand if it is just game saves, online dating ratings then a less robust system could be used

I myself use a combination of server backups onto tape and other data spread across other machines, some of which are at different locations

Too many people place too much faith in online backup systems imo.  These systems use hard drives that can fail also.

Their drives may be enterprise grade with all manners of redundancy systems built in etc but unless they are kept in a fire proof location then one big bonfire and all that work is gone.

[pscocoa]

I have nothing that's worth backing up. 

Sheep?

[Weds]

I have a server running Windows Home Server (WHS) this makes images of 2 PC's and 2 lappies every day (or when they are on) From that I can either restore from an image in a few hours or find individual files from within the image..

I also rent space with Carbonite an off site server service where I back up any directory within my main PC, mainly documents and pictures.. It will automatically upload any changes made to the selected directory..

I can also access my Carbonite service from any other PC or smartphone.

As said before, not if, but when...

 

[Steve B]

Anyone use a online seedbox

[AndyRoid]

Anyone use a online seedbox

Is that a service for cohabitating rugmunchers that want a child without any kind of real male involvement in the conception process?

[Steve B]

Anyone use a online seedbox

Is that a service for cohabitating rugmunchers that want a child without any kind of real male involvement in the conception process?

sort of 

[Kevin Wood]

Anyone use a online seedbox

Is that a service for cohabitating rugmunchers that want a child without any kind of real male involvement in the conception process?

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