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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1625040">1. The various uptime record of &quot;clouds&quot; is a order of quantum magnitude higher than any physical equipment you have ever bought. It's polite to remove your (tinfoil) hat when you come in here.2. The only thing &quot;proven&quot; about &quot;proven technology&quot; is that is proven TO FAIL at some point, usually the worst possible moment. Murphy's Law hasn't been rescinded.3. You're right that for large amounts of data, a cloud solution is likely too expensive and time-consuming to be practical for the OP, but as an off-site backup it's pretty hard to beat (and again, more reliable than the hard drives you rely on).There is the <a href="https://www.idrive.com" target="_blank">IDrive</a> service, that will send you a 1TB or 3TB portable drive for you to copy your data onto and then you ship it back to them and they put it on the cloud for you (free with the storage -- 1TB of storage is $60 per year, yes that's right YEAR). Obviously the delivery part takes a bit of time, but it's probably the fastest way to get 1TB+ worth of data into the cloud, and on top of that the data is end-to-end encrypted using 256-bit AES with the option of a private key that IDrive won't know. I'll wager your backups aren't anywhere near that secure.I'd personally suggest that the OP look at a method of backing up his SD cards onto an external drive (I think I recall some drives that can read SD cards directly) and locking the SD cards and storing them securely. Or he might consider the IDrive service I mentioned, which I'm sure you'll agree sounds like a very reasonable solution.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1625040"] 1. The various uptime record of "clouds" is a order of quantum magnitude higher than any physical equipment you have ever bought. It's polite to remove your (tinfoil) hat when you come in here. 2. The only thing "proven" about "proven technology" is that is proven TO FAIL at some point, usually the worst possible moment. Murphy's Law hasn't been rescinded. 3. You're right that for large amounts of data, a cloud solution is likely too expensive and time-consuming to be practical for the OP, but as an off-site backup it's pretty hard to beat (and again, more reliable than the hard drives you rely on). There is the [URL="https://www.idrive.com"]IDrive[/URL] service, that will send you a 1TB or 3TB portable drive for you to copy your data onto and then you ship it back to them and they put it on the cloud for you (free with the storage -- 1TB of storage is $60 per year, yes that's right YEAR). Obviously the delivery part takes a bit of time, but it's probably the fastest way to get 1TB+ worth of data into the cloud, and on top of that the data is end-to-end encrypted using 256-bit AES with the option of a private key that IDrive won't know. I'll wager your backups aren't anywhere near that secure. I'd personally suggest that the OP look at a method of backing up his SD cards onto an external drive (I think I recall some drives that can read SD cards directly) and locking the SD cards and storing them securely. Or he might consider the IDrive service I mentioned, which I'm sure you'll agree sounds like a very reasonable solution. [/QUOTE]

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