FWIW I used to have a NAS too. As my work became a lot more mobile (and after two drives failed), I switched to a trio of solutions: My writing lives on Dropbox, but the backup zip files (daily) sit in iCloud, and I have my Documents folder entirely synced with iCloud. On top of that my entire machine is continiously archived to Backblaze (which is of course cloud based too). This means one way or another there are at least three copies of any file I care about, so long as I’ve been near wifi or 5G for a while. This means I can get to any of my files from anywhere in the world too, I don’t even need my usual machine if something terrible happened.
It’s all theoretically on my macBook SSD after all… (including the Documents folder, which is also synced with iCloud, and my writing folder, which is synced with DropBox, and the backup zips… and then all of it is also copied to Backblaze)
(I say theoretically because technically if my Mac starts to run low on space, it’ll start offloading older files to the iCloud to free up space… but given I have over 600gb space free that’s not going to happen any time soon. Not something I’m too worried about as I know the files are also archived in two other cloud solutions too).
I always have that turned off. I don’t want any cloud system deciding it needs to offload anything from my system. I know it’s most unlikely to happen as I have 2TB internal and despite also having 3 VM’s set up have in excess of 500GB free. BUT, dumber things have been known to happen and I don’t trust any third party to make those decisions for me. Not paranoid, just a healthy skepticism after 40+ yrs in IT and witnessed system/3rd party cock-ups from minor to monumental.
I might add, in one of my roles at Apple I reviewed hundreds of iCloud related AppleCare calls and though iCloud is generally reliable and improved in recent times, there still were instances of lost data, usually user error, but some ‘your guess is as good as mine’.
Yep, similar. Still a software engineer by day (UI/UX), since early 1990s. There is nothing on my Mac(s) that doesn’t live elsewhere (be that git or Creative Cloud, or the Google Drive we use for other work assets).
I’ve seen cloud services eat themselves over the years.
(My paricular favourite of recent times was when Azura cloud decided to delete some folks remote files… which then sychronised to local OneDrive folders… and deleted those local files too)
The problem isn’t ‘being hounded for political views’ it’s service reliability.
If services are hosted in a country that hasn’t longer a government that doesn’t use the economy as its personal punching bag regularly, cutting off services just to hurt foreign businesses and consumers isn’t an absurd idea.
Tell that to the International Court of Justice. I’m sure they will be relieved to hear there’s no problem any longer, since Microsoft has data centers all over the world.
Since when does the ICJ have jurisdiction to hear/decide on such matters?
They’re not a higher authority; they’re a function of the United Nations with a very focussed mandate.
I worry about the misinformation you’re feeding your students.