Box user RS Zaharna...
Why is he tweeting @DropboxSupport about Box issues? Aren't they completely different entities?
Business user file sync and sharer Box "sank" for some users late last week, who took to forums and social media complaining they could not see any of their files. One Reg reading Box user told us he'd "lost" four years' worth of files, saying: "They have no phone support... the long and short of it is that files that have …
@missingegg my stepdaughter went to Uni and I gave her 1TB of OneDrive storage, she had a Google account and a bunch of USB sticks... She stored all of her data on her MacBook Pro, didn't tell me the USB sticks didn't work (or rather the USB ports on the Mac didn't work properly).
Then, on the way back from Uni, she threw her coffee flask in her backpack, along with her MacBook Pro... But forgot to close the flask first. By the time she got back home, there was a lovely crystal pattern across the inside of the screen and coffee was pouring out the ventilation slots. We tried drying out the hard drive, but it was encrusted with a sugary mess and despite all attempts, the data was lost, including her disertation.
The first thing I did with her replacement was to put a Carbonite subscription on it. It came up for renewal last month and she paid for the renewal (she has now graduated).
As you say, most people do nothing to protect their data, even if they are given multiple methods of protecting it.
"As you say, most people do nothing to protect their data, even if they are given multiple methods of protecting it."
They need to be reminded. There needs to be a schedule. a box needs to pop up saying "please insert usb stick labeled 'week1' for a backup"
Thats how I do it , I have a script of my own labourious design that runs everytime my main computer starts. It checks if its more than 7 days since last backup , and if so copies my NAS to backup location - of which there are 2 that it alternates between.
And those who have lost irretrievable data, but it was a long time ago and therefore couldn't possibly happen again
And those that still use tape as a backup medium despite the fact that restores from tape regularly fail..
Not that I'm bitter or anything (one past workplace used to store tapes in a locked storeroom. Unfortunately, said storeroom was over the plant room and tapes would regularly get corrupted by the magnetic fields from the large pumps on the ceiling of the plant room..)
This is kind of a non-story.
Anybody who relies on a single device or single service to store valuable data deserves to lose it. It doesn't matter if you use Google Drive, Amazon Glacier, Box, Dropbox, Spideroak (just off the too of my head) or any other of the many services, you should always have replicas of your data.
But it's in the Cloud so it must be safe. The salesdroid told the director who told the manager and he told me.
Nothing ever goes wrong so why would I ever need a backup or worry about an SLA or a contract or any of that nonsense. Or data protection, or hacking or...
It's not like clouds are gaseous ethereal structures is it?
I have been told by C-level executives at three different companies that backups no longer matter because its all "in the cloud" and if anything goes wrong we can take them court. Not with a straight face but that smug look of an idiot who thinks he's being really clever.
"My files are now back and safe and I have made a physical backup of them, and I am now moving to another storage location."
LOL! Isn't this one of the many panaceas promised by cloud computing: safe remote backup. So, here we are backing up the backup. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.