On Mon, 2023-10-23 at 08:08 -0500, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On 23 Oct at 05:39, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > On Mon, 2023-10-23 at 03:16 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > Nothing other than than cloud backup gives both my > > > wife and me the creeps. > > > > That's your call of course. It's a question of weighing the > > benefits > > against potential risks, which only you can do. In my case I > > consider > > the potential risks to be negligible and the benefits considerable, > > but > > YMMV. > > I've been a consultant for over 45 years. I've seen fads come and go, > along with more consistent changes that survive. Cloud isn't a fad-- > it's not going away--but it is still finding itself. And implementors > are not, in my professional opinion, anywhere near a secure and > sustainable final solution. None will sign meaningful contracts that > hold them liable for downtime or data loss. To be clear, I'm not advocating the use of a cloud service as an alternative to local storage. The specific question here is about facilitating data transfer between two incompatible systems. Keeping your valuable data in the cloud, with or without local backup, is a different issue. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
