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Re:Tell HN: GitHub will delete your private repo if you lose... by kaushikc on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @05:23PM (#34603164)
It's simple! Maintain the control and the capability to retrieve your important data at all times. The internet is a wild place and everything you don't save could potentially be gone forever.
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Re:Tell HN: GitHub will delete your private repo if you lose... by nobody9999 on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @05:27PM (#34603219)
>It's simple! Maintain the control and the capability to retrieve your important data at all times.

An excellent point, but I'd go further and say that one should maintain multiple copies of important data, with at least one of those on hardware/infrastructure you control and have physical access to.

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