I'm with Bill, I still use external drives for backups for the same reason, but am tempted with "the cloud" Maybe our worries are unfounded ? Do the "cloud" systems back up the data (on external hard drives, :-) ?
Bob K6UJ On Jul 6, 2012, at 4:59 AM, Bill Cromwell wrote: > On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 07:38 -0400, W2PM wrote: >> I'm done with external drives and now use cloud based backup services. Never >> worry now about the timelinness and availability of the backups. >> >> Sent from my iPad >> > > Hi, > > I can't get past the fact that in the cloud I would be entrusting > complete strangers with *everything* I have on record including the > privacy of my data. I just don't trust any big city strangers that much. > If the security and safety of your data doesn't matter that much why > bother about the expense of "the cloud"? YMMV. > > 73, > > Bill KU8H > > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
