[geeks] Cheap/reliable backup?

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On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 02:30:14AM -0500, Mouse wrote:
> >> As for the 'provider going out of business' issue, that's why I
> >> paired a cloud solution with a near-field solution (local disk
> >> backup).  If you backup locally AND on a cloud, you've got 3 copies
> >> of your data - the original, your local backup and the cloud backup
> >> - you have to lose all three to suffer data loss.
> > The way things have been going lately, the cloud seems the least
> > reliable even though technically it's the most reliable.
> 
> So, say, pick eight cloud providers and do an (8,3) secret-split and
> give them the shares.  You can lose any five of them and still be able
> to recover your data - and no two or fewer of them can deduce your data
> even when cooperating.  Adjust the numbers to suit your levels of
> paranoia about loss and about collusion to recover your data without
> your approval.

That's kind of interesting technically, but not feasible from a management
or cost standpoint, at least not for me. I guess I just don't want
cloud-anything badly enough.

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