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Re:European Cloud Project Draws Backlash from U.S. Tech Giants by magashna on Friday November 01, 2019 @02:59PM (#21422523)
Not how does it, how do you. You should spread the data to an offsite or secondary location.
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Re:European Cloud Project Draws Backlash from U.S. Tech Giants by deanCommie on Friday November 01, 2019 @03:04PM (#21422569)
So, a backup solution where part of the instructions is..."another backup solution"

Come on.

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Re:European Cloud Project Draws Backlash from U.S. Tech Giants by magashna on Friday November 01, 2019 @03:33PM (#21422826)
Uh, yeah? A common rule in IT is 3-2-1 backups.

3 copies

2 different devices or medias

1 offsite

If your data isn't that important, then don't.

https://www.us-cert.gov/sites/default/files/publications/dat...

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Re:European Cloud Project Draws Backlash from U.S. Tech Giants by deanCommie on Friday November 01, 2019 @07:51PM (#21424905)
A) Cloud backup solutions already abstract away replicating multiple copies for redundancy.

Unless Google/Dropbox/Amazon/Microsoft go out of business, you are not likely to lose data from your backup via act of god (aka data center fire)

B) The simple interface of web solutions is still ultimately that if you want redundancy, just pick 2 (or 3) different providers. Myself - I use Google Drive for backup of my most core files, and Backblaze for the whole shabang.

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Re:European Cloud Project Draws Backlash from U.S. Tech Giants by magashna on Saturday November 02, 2019 @04:54AM (#21426603)
Right, so you have as part of your backup solution "another backup solution"
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Re:European Cloud Project Draws Backlash from U.S. Tech Giants by deanCommie on Sunday November 03, 2019 @11:05AM (#21434651)
My point is backup that's not Offsite is not backup at all.
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Re:European Cloud Project Draws Backlash from U.S. Tech Giants by exolymph on Friday November 01, 2019 @04:14PM (#21423230)
Defense in depth applies to reliability of backups as well as security :P
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