I cannot watch hospital shows on television: whenever I see somebody cut up, I cannot help but imagine the same thing happening to me -- and that makes me nauseous. Same thing for some reality tv, btw ;-)
It's been going around for a day or two: stories about
what happened to T-Mobile Sidekick users. It's sad for the users, and I feel for them. I have an Android phone, and all my data is also "in the cloud". Ok, it's Google's cloud, and it's good to know that the
Google File System and other technologies these Google's services are built on (including App Engine) have replication and distribution built in. Yet I am wondering: should I be backing up my data? Thanks to the
Data Liberation Front, there are now solutions documented for pretty much any service I use, so I guess it would be possible. Yet, I somehow cannot see me downloading all data and storing it on some disk. Over the course of the years (before I switched to Gmail), I have lost my email history several times, as I switched between email clients, my harddisk crashed, or I simply lost the CD-Rom with the backup. So far, through my last three years or so as Google Apps user, they have not lost a single bit of information I put onto their servers. I could throw all my computers into the trash right now, and all I would have lost would be a couple of savegames from Titan Quest and Diablo 2. I find that kindof reassuring.
How do others handle their online accounts, be it Hotmail, Yahoo, Google, or anything else? Do you folks do manual backups?
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Nope, not backed up, although it wouldn't be the end of the world if I lost any of my content in Google's cloud. Old emails are nice but I don't refer back _that_ often.
Of course locally I keep my data on several disks and backup periodically.
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