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Howto fix the problem:

Posted Oct 15, 2009 8:02 UTC (Thu) by ekj (guest, #1524)
In reply to: Howto fix the problem: by dlang
Parent article: Ubuntu to store copies of all users' address books

I have a laptop, it does backups to a fileserver in the basement. It also does encrypted backups to a backup-service on the internet. The latter is there for the case that our house is burglarised, or burn down, or some other disaster destroys BOTH laptop AND fileserver at the same time.

And yes, if that happens AND I've forgotten the password for the encryption, it's acceptable for me to suffer data-loss. We're talking miniscule probabilities here. (I'd have to forget the password I use for logging in every day at the precise same time that something catastrophic happens at home. That's a level of risk that is entirely acceptable to me.)

Sending my entire digital world to some random company on the internet, for them and anyone that aquires, breaks into, subpoenas or otherwise gains access to their servers ? No thank you, not interested.


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Posted Oct 15, 2009 17:39 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

you are not the common case (neither am I), we can and do take steps like this so that we do not have a single point of failure.

we also don't need a service like this because we can replicate and protect things ourselves.

this service is intended for people who otherwise are not backing things up, let alone replicating an encryption key for the backup.

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