Do you use Cloud Storage?

[KuJoe]

Here's my cloud  :

 

[stconquest]

Do a bunch of hard drives in a drawer count?  ='(

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9 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

You can't though cos it doesn't break it down like Google Forms. You can't see individual results. The results are combined.

4 people now that pay, and still none of them are on Google Drive... it's not looking good for the bet I'm pretending we made

[AlTech]

2 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

4 people now that pay, and still none of them are on Google Drive... it's not looking good for the bet I'm pretending we made

My school pays for Google Drive. Unlimited storage.

[DrM]

i have 2 google accounts for backup, but i usually use dropbox (maxed out at 17gb for the free version)

[HeadsUpHigh]

I'm using free google drive to share PDFs and power points at college and also as a second way to backup some stuff. Having local backups etc is good but doesn't cover you in case of a firestrike or getting stolen etc. So I'm making monthly updates to my cloud backup which due to size, wallet and internet restrictions is trimmed down to the bare minimum.

 

Also I'm using google apps for docs and presentations, while having only notepad++ and a pdf viewer on my machine, which means I sometimes need to have files uploaded.

 

Everything else is local in my laptop and various external storage solutions.

[petem]

I use almost exclusively USB 3.0 flash drives - they are pretty cheap, easy to robocopy, and can be buried out back in a water proof container for fire proof backups.

 

I have a NAS, but since I already have the USB drives, I haven't bothered configuring it for automated backups.  I only use it for media storage and serving.

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1 minute ago, petem said:

I use almost exclusively USB 3.0 flash drives - they are pretty cheap, easy to robocopy, and can be buried out back in a water proof container for fire proof backups.

 

I have a NAS, but since I already have the USB drives, I haven't bothered configuring it for automated backups.  I only use it for media storage and serving.

Do you actually do that? That's hilarious!  and awesome because it's actually a good idea 

[petem]

34 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Do you actually do that? That's hilarious!  and awesome because it's actually a good idea 

Yep, I keep the older ones at work, and rotate through them as I make updates - most recent goes out back, out back goes to work, work comes home for the next update.

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1 minute ago, petem said:

Yep, I keep the older ones at work, and rotate through them as I make updates - most recent goes out back, out back goes to work, work comes home for the next update.

And I assume they're all encrypted then?

[petem]

7 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

And I assume they're all encrypted then?

Just the small amount of sensitive personal info (finances, investing, taxes ...), which probably accounts for less than 2% of the total. I just 7zip it  I don't bother encrypting other "personal" files like my programming, gaming save files, vacation pics, projects, events history, etc. - nobody's likely to dig up my garden to data mine my content, at least until the NSA picks all the lower hanging fruit - and they probably already have it all anyway...

 

Speaking of which, why do we taxpayers need a cloud service when the NSA already has all our computer files? Why can't we just ask them for any copies of stuff we lose or want previous versions of?  Oh.  What am I thinking?  Like all our other bloated, conflicting mission, politically motivated, turf protecting, create-b.s.-fear-stories-to-compete-for-funds bureaucracies, they probably have our data BUT if you gave them the date, the name, a uniquely identifiable string, the day they stole it from you, and the $5 optional green energy fee to help pay for the "kids without cloud storage" program, they could probably tell you which state the servers that contained the file were located in - after about 3 years.

 

I wonder if they copy all the cloud content too - never know when a jihadi will run out of room on their laptop and need cloud storage to plan the next big thing... I bet I could sell that to the senate.

 

Oh, sorry.  Got a little off track.  I blame you. 

 

Any who, everything else I have is pretty much readily available on the net (media files), so I just keep a library listing, and will rebuild if my NAS if it ever melts down.

 

I suppose I should change my poll response, since my system would more appropriately be called "dirt" storage...

 

- Pete

[iamdarkbowser]

On 7/6/2016 at 11:55 PM, AluminiumTech said:

What do you use as a server and specs pls?

For whatever reason I did not get a notification of your quote... My (dad's) old work computer is being used for it. Specs: First gen i5, no graphics card, 1tb hybrid drive and another 1tb drive (not hybrid), old motherboard that seems to hate networking (have no idea what the model # is), some I think 500w power supply that I will never use on an expensive computer, I think 8gb of ram. Is that what you needed?

[AlTech]

54 minutes ago, iamdarkbowser said:

For whatever reason I did not get a notification of your quote... My (dad's) old work computer is being used for it. Specs: First gen i5, no graphics card, 1tb hybrid drive and another 1tb drive (not hybrid), old motherboard that seems to hate networking (have no idea what the model # is), some I think 500w power supply that I will never use on an expensive computer, I think 8gb of ram. Is that what you needed?

Yeah that's great . Thanks man!

[mealto]

Obviously most of you guys store just the most important files. Or you are too young to have accumulated over a life time (and possibly the lifetime of your parents) in digital content. Data Asset Management (DAM) is literally, a growing problem. This becomes almost unmanageable for most people especially once they start a family. I have known 3 families where precious photos and files have been lost due to not having backups. 

 

And those megapixesls of photos and high resolution videos are only getting larger in size.

 

I am thinking about Crashplan as my tertiary offsite backup. Who else is doing this?