An Apple fan who has spent “nearly 30 years as a loyal customer” says they’ve been “permanently” locked out of their Apple Account due to what might be the overzealous actions of Apple’s automated anti-fraud system. It’s left them locked out of “20 years of digital life,” and it all started with the seemingly straightforward purchase of an Apple gift card.
Cloud storage allows normal people to better realize a proper 3-2-1 backup strategy though, since it facilitates offsite storage.
That being said, my very important stuff is backed up to more than one cloud provider, just in case.
Absolutely, then people go and delete the other copies leaving just the cloud, and think that it’s somehow fine.
Line Microsoft Onedrive repeatedly forcefully and silently enabling on-demand constantly, then occasionally fucking up and deleting unsynced files
Yeah stuff like that, but also the locally synced copy I would not trust no matter what as really any sync software can suddenly delete or corrupt files. Best to have at least 2 actual backups in place that are versioned and done daily or every few hours.
Cloud storage is fine for your offsite copy as long as you encrypt your data before uploading it. The problem is that a lot of people are using it as their only copy.
I consider it insane to not retain a local backup of anything that is important.
Personally I don’t think the tradeoff is worth while. I put nothing remotely personal on other peoples computers. I’d rather lose everything. But it is not actually that big a problem, my brother has a backup that I update once a month in his safe in his house, and I have his. Should be good enough.
That still fulfils the offsite requirement of 3-2-1, so you’re still good there. If you both have a NAS, then you can be each other’s “cloud provider” as well.
But in that case, it’s not a migration to cloud, but just an addition of the cloud as a resource
I’m sure I’m stating the obvious, but you can do both. I backup my important self-hosted data to the cloud (B2, in my case). I also have a colo that I backup to.