Save Your Data Locally...Email Globally?

Link: Death By Email Blog: Email Archive Lost Permanently For 14,000 Users. If you needed a reason for saving your email and other program data locally; especially if you use web based applications, here is one. I would rather risk my data backups to a hard drive or backup drive on my local system than some web server somewhere that I have no control over. Until this problem is fixed, many lawyers will be wary of web based solutions. Of course, we will still, lemming like, follow the crowd to the precipice, won't we?

Comments

[D. Todd Smith]

I have struggled with whether to sign up for an offsite backup service, and this kind of report is one of the reasons why I just can't get there. The chances of my laptop and an external hard drive both going down in flames seem pretty remote. I think I'll invest in a 750 gig external hard drive and be done with it.

[Kay Brenner]

I can understand the merits of saving locally but what about a disaster should this happen whether this is man-made or natural.

I can understand the apprehensions of making backups over the Internet - but the connection is completely encrypted and not something any hacker can crack

If do setup an account with an line backup service - make sure the user name and passwords are not obvious