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Re: Adobe's Low hanging .... ?

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SubjectRe: Adobe's Low hanging .... ?
FromEric Stevens
Date2014-07-13 06:26 (2014-07-13 16:26)
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On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 23:26:05 -0400, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

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In article <btf3s9hofi4f1cadb750a67u0a2j3lj6vh@4ax.com>, Eric Stevens <eric.stevens@sum.co.nz>wrote:

Eric Stevens
Of course clouds can and have lost data.

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so can local hard drives.

if you're going to bash the cloud because of a potential data loss, you have to *also* bash hard drives for the same issue.

I'm not bashing the cloud. I'm bashing you for saying "a cloud outage might be annoying, but the data won't be lost".

The data might not be lost but there have been many occasions when it has been lost. Your fall back position that the data should be in another backup somewhere but you don't actually know that. The fact is that data has been lost from the cloud.

and you aren't.

keep in mind that the cloud is *less* likely to have an issue than a local hard drive because reliability is what keeps the service in business. nobody is going to want to use an unreliable service.

Squink.

Eric Stevens
It's not so bad when it's only a backup of what you have on the disk but some commercial cloud software is used both to store data and run software. That is your computer is merely a remote terminal for somebody elses computer system up in the sky.

If that type of cloud goes down fatally you have suffered an irrevocable loss. Lets hope _they_ have a bullet proof backup.

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they likely have better backups than most people do.

But you don't know that. --

Regards,

Eric Stevens

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