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  • (Score: 1) by Cyrano de Maniac on Wednesday September 02 2015, @06:38PM

    by Cyrano de Maniac (5727) on Wednesday September 02 2015, @06:38PM (#231383)

    To be fair to the poll respondents, selecting a backup media as a poll option says nothing about the physical location (onsite vs. offsite) of the backups themselves.

    "External USB disk" may well mean "multiple copies thereof, one stored locally and one offsite". Or to flip things around "Cloud" could theoretically mean "My homebrewed cloud implementation sitting in the basement of my house".

    While I have slacked recently, in the past I kept a duplicate set of home backup tapes at my work office. If something managed to wipe out both my house and my workplace simultaneously, it's likely Armageddon is nigh and the status of my backups isn't of much concern. Maybe this wouldn't be quite true in a flood, hurricane, or earthquake vulnerable area, or if you're worried about non-geologic timescales, nuclear annihilation, foreign invasion, or extinction-level events, but for my locale and lifespan the "second copy in my desk at work" solution is perfectly sufficient.

  • (Score: 1) by Cyrano de Maniac on Wednesday September 02 2015, @06:40PM

    by Cyrano de Maniac (5727) on Wednesday September 02 2015, @06:40PM (#231387)

    s/non-//

    Dang "spent more time rewording this than writing it" phenomena.

  • (Score: 1) by Osamabobama on Wednesday September 02 2015, @09:05PM

    by Osamabobama (5842) on Wednesday September 02 2015, @09:05PM (#231449)

    Also, the poll only allows one choice. I spend more time moving things to my NAS (my response) than I do backing up to the cloud, because much of the cloud backup is automatic, and the NAS requires manual movement of files.
    All my photos end up on a Google server, often before I see them. Sometimes, they even get edited for me, probably by a robot. I assume there are also robots watching vacation slide shows, so save my friends and family from having to see them.

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