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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

We backup photos or music to a separate external disk attached to the Mac computer. That cost $100 once 6 years ago.

This is inadequate.

You should have multiple backup devices, so that you will not lose everything if one gets corrupted during the backup process. You should also have off-site backups. And the expected lifespan of a hard disk is five years, so you are already living on borrowed time.

Backups are important.

Avoided writing a mighty tome, which apparently bothered the nitpickers.

No, none of our phones are full. Yes, we do have complete backups for all devices, multiple of each, and blah blah blah.

An unavoidable problem with cloud-only backups is that they can be (and in multiple cases documented by The Register and others actually have been) compromised in ways causing the legit user to lose everything stored there.

None of your phones of full? So you must be buying expensive phones with the maximum storage or you don’t have a wife and kids. They take so many pictures. I’m not spending the time to prune it down, but their phones fill so my options are to offload to 2 drives, or sync to cloud and back up that to a drive. (I do #2 but hate the costs but it’s trading money for time I don’t want to spend curating GBs of data).

Have a full family. Phones are not maximum storage size. Pictures are automatically moved to the Mac when the phone syncs with Mac (we never sync anything with iCloud).

Filters in photos app on the mac help us find the photos when needed. Photos that need to be on the phone permanently are in a separate folder inside Photos app on mac that is sync'd with phones. We sync with mac via wireless or sometimes with cables.

Not a lot of work if one merely syncs phones regularly with a mac. No idea about users with Windows, as we don't use that.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

We backup photos or music to a separate external disk attached to the Mac computer. That cost $100 once 6 years ago.

This is inadequate.

You should have multiple backup devices, so that you will not lose everything if one gets corrupted during the backup process. You should also have off-site backups. And the expected lifespan of a hard disk is five years, so you are already living on borrowed time.

Backups are important.

Avoided writing a mighty tome, which apparently bothered the nitpickers.

No, none of our phones are full. Yes, we do have complete backups for all devices, multiple of each, and blah blah blah.

An unavoidable problem with cloud-only backups is that they can be (and in multiple cases documented by The Register and others actually have been) compromised in ways causing the legit user to lose everything stored there.

None of your phones of full? So you must be buying expensive phones with the maximum storage or you don’t have a wife and kids. They take so many pictures. I’m not spending the time to prune it down, but their phones fill so my options are to offload to 2 drives, or sync to cloud and back up that to a drive. (I do #2 but hate the costs but it’s trading money for time I don’t want to spend curating GBs of data).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

We backup photos or music to a separate external disk attached to the Mac computer. That cost $100 once 6 years ago.

This is inadequate.

You should have multiple backup devices, so that you will not lose everything if one gets corrupted during the backup process. You should also have off-site backups. And the expected lifespan of a hard disk is five years, so you are already living on borrowed time.

Backups are important.

Avoided writing a mighty tome, which apparently bothered the nitpickers.

No, none of our phones are full. Yes, we do have complete backups for all devices, multiple of each, and blah blah blah.

An unavoidable problem with cloud-only backups is that they can be (and in multiple cases documented by The Register and others actually have been) compromised in ways causing the legit user to lose everything stored there.

Anonymous wrote:

We backup photos or music to a separate external disk attached to the Mac computer. That cost $100 once 6 years ago.

This is inadequate.

You should have multiple backup devices, so that you will not lose everything if one gets corrupted during the backup process. You should also have off-site backups. And the expected lifespan of a hard disk is five years, so you are already living on borrowed time.

Backups are important.

Anonymous wrote:

We backup photos or music to a separate external disk attached to the Mac computer. That cost $100 once 6 years ago.

This is inadequate.

You should have multiple backup devices, so that you will not lose everything if one gets corrupted during the backup process. You should also have off-site backups. And the expected lifespan of a hard disk is five years, so you are already living on borrowed time.

Backups are important.