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Old 12-10-2016, 09:28 AM
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Originally Posted by sil View Post
A few things I mirror online with Evernote for easy access on phone. But at all costs I AVOID cloud services, why pay and trust someone else to protect my data That I can do faster and easier myself? Likewise specialty software. You are locking your data away in a single point of failure. You can not guarentee that the cloud service or software will even exist when it comes time to needing to recover a file.
Hence the reason why I also backup locally. If the service goes away, I won't lose data. I'll know when they go away and I can change things at that point. I run the software 24/7 so it won't be a surprise.

I could probably setup my own online backup somewhere, but I just don't want to manage it - the wasted time on that far outweighs the convenience I've got now.

As for privacy, it's encrypted. Won't stop the NSA, et al, but it's good enough for most purposes.
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