{"id":1622,"date":"2013-04-05T12:53:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T16:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nccomputertech.com\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2013-04-05T12:53:44","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T16:53:44","slug":"cloud-based-backup-is-it-right-for-long-term-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2013\/04\/05\/cloud-based-backup-is-it-right-for-long-term-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud-based backup: Is it right for long-term storage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2032511\/cloud-based-backup-is-it-right-for-long-term-storage-.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/nccomputertech.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/0404-thumb-100031220-large.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cloud-based backup services, such as Mozy, Carbonite, and IDrive, upload your files to their servers as protection against your losing the originals. This has some big advantages over a local backup. Once set up they&#8217;re completely automatic. And it&#8217;s extremely unlikely that the same fire or flood will destroy your computer and your backup.<br \/>\nBut there are disadvantages, as well. One is that you lose physical control of your backup. Those files could be destroyed because of someone else&#8217;s corporate decision.<br \/>\nBut that&#8217;s not likely to happen&#8211;at least if you continue to pay your bill. But it&#8217;s a good idea to know a service&#8217;s policy.<br \/>\nBoth Mozy and Carbonite will keep a file as long as it&#8217;s on your drive (or at least the part of your drive that you&#8217;re backing up), and for an additional 30 days after it disappears. That seems fair to me. If a file disappeared from your drive a month ago, and you haven&#8217;t restored it, chances are you don&#8217;t want it anymore.<br \/>\nIDrive, on the other hand, provides ways to control what will and will not be deleted from the server. You can keep files on their server that you&#8217;re no longer keeping on your hard drive, in what an IDrive representative described to me as &#8220;an archival solution.&#8221;<br \/>\nBut I wouldn&#8217;t recommend that. If you want to keep a file indefinitely, keep it in more than one place. And at least one of those places should be your hard drive or some other local storage.<br \/>\nAnd then backup that local storage&#8211;possibly to the cloud.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2032511\/cloud-based-backup-is-it-right-for-long-term-storage-.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cloud-based backup: Is it right for long-term storage? | PCWorld<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud-based backup services, such as Mozy, Carbonite, and IDrive, upload your files to their servers as protection against your losing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[116,203,204],"class_list":["post-1622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-technology","tag-backup","tag-cloud-services","tag-cloud-storage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/papNkV-qa","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9655,"url":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2021\/03\/09\/fuquay-varina-and-holly-springs-computer-repair\/","url_meta":{"origin":1622,"position":0},"title":"Fuquay Varina and Holly Springs Computer Repair","author":"NCCT","date":"March 9, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Welcome to our blog. 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