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On 2015-03-11, Tim Watts wrote:

On 11/03/15 22:42, John F wrote:

Exactly - and you can purchase a 1TB drive and a fireproof safe to put it in
for less than the cost of a years rental on a good cloud server - even if
the cloud server is free, it costs you in terms of dealing with the
advertizing and spyware etc delivered with all the public services nowadays

Indeed.

But to be useful in today's world, it does need to be accessible to
devices - which brings me back to the original problem

But at least if you have an offline backup (plus one or more offsite
copies to be really safe), you can get your data back in the event
of catastrophic failure, malware attacks, hostage situations, etc.

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