On 19/11/2019 13:42, Julian Hall
wrote:
I don't like 'the cloud', to be honest for /any/ data storage
much less personal data backup;
- Control; I want to be in full control of /my/ data.
- Security; Their server will be a much bigger hacker
target, and I never know who of their employees can access
my data.
- Access; The big one. What happens if/when I need access to
my backups and either their or my network connection is
down? This happened recently to my brother at a major UK
university - their network was down for an entire day. I
have also had outages on my ISP - Virginmedia - which would
have prevented me from accessing the data.
I don't like the cloud either, and all your points are valid,
though the backup from my NAS does encrypt the individual files,
so they are limited to seeing my file system hierarchy and
individual file names.
I'm bound by HMRC so I have to be able to produce a certain
number of years worth of files, and my dog ate my hard drive
doesn't really cut it with HMRC, unfortunately, so cloud backup
for those files is what I need to do, it provides me continuity
for accounts, and the reason that *insert cloud provider here*
lost my data gives me some legal standing in a case.
Periodic DVD-RW copy? You could label them 2019 Q1, 2019 Q2 etc.
Just a thought :)