On 01/12/2015 12:15, John Williamson wrote:
On 01/12/2015 10:44, Chris J Dixon wrote:
Jim Lesurf wrote:

Yes. Needs to be backed up - in the cloud, on another drive, or on
optical media.

No problem - I have an Office 365 subscription, which comes with
far more storage than I will fill. It took a while to get the
initial data uploaded, but updates are much more manageable.

You actually trust Microsoft with all your data?

I checked on whether Office 365 would do what I want and it turned out
that if I couldn't get an internet connection, I had no access to my
data. The same with Outlook.com. So I paid for a decent system that
keeps all my data local and secure, unless I deliberately let it out.
Even my phone doesn't use the cloud for anything even remotely private.

I just synchronise my computer with a network attached HD or another
computer every time I close down, and haven't lost any data due to
hardware failure in 30 years or so. In fact, my system makes it almost
impossible to *deliberately* lose any data, as it gets restored the next
time my sync software connects to a copy anywhere on the network.



Just hope you don't have a flood or a fire or someone pinches the
servers and computers.

I have compromised on a couple of Synology NAS and an encrypted backup
on to onedrive. There are a couple of disk images too. At least no
single event should be able to destroy the data. Maybe an asteroid can.