3CorsaMeal
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Had a problem with my work laptop and a virus, and due to my cock up while backing up my files i ended up losing all my stuff 
Got most my photos as i upload them to photobucket, but all my word documents and files i had, i have lost.
Anyone use this cloud storage i keep hearing about? Am considering it now instead of the hassle of backups etc
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Steve
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JimCorsaMeal 
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Rob_Quads
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DropBox - i used it for all my docs - http://db.tt/Dj8aKoyM
I also put all my photos onto CDs and give them to my parents.
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ed
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I use Backblaze (on recommendation from Dom  ) to keep my laptop backed up in 'the cloud'. I also have a NAS at home that it backs up to as well, which works quite nicely.
Backblaze isn't cloud storage as such, it's just a backup solution, but it does just silently sit in the background taking incremental backups of your entire computer (can also select what you'd like to backup). It's about £5 a month but costs a fair whack if you'd like a physical copy of your data. I guess that's just their business model, but they do give the option to download everything free of charge should it all go tits up.
I also use Dropbox for storing things I'm currently working on. That's useful because it keeps things backed up, but you also have access to all the stuff stored on it from any computer connected to the internet. There are similar products to that like SugarSync too 
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3CorsaMeal
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quote:
Originally posted by Rob_Quads
I also put all my photos onto CDs and give them to my parents.
even penis pics?
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3CorsaMeal
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will look into dropbox
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Gary
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Googe Drive. Same as dropbox really but i use google for everything so its easier for me
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3CorsaMeal
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quote:
Originally posted by Gary
Googe Drive. Same as dropbox really but i use google for everything so its easier for me
Googe?
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Sam
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Google*
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noshua
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Another Dropbox user here, and multiple hard drive backups
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Rob_Quads
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I was going to use google until I saw the T&Cs over stuff you upload.
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When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content
No way am I giving them docs they are then free to do what they want with
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Sam
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Google: "We own you" 
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Gary
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Is that the t & c for plus or drive?
And tbh sam its only as bad as apple owning everyone
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Sam
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You have to pay for that privilege with Apple, at least with Google it's free
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Gary
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True,
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ed
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GMail has similar T&C's so they can rifle through your emails and target you some nice ads 
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Gary
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That's only the same as any website with targerted ad's though
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John
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Google will never do anything like that, people would leave in droves if they were using your documentation for anything other than targeted ads.
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3CorsaMeal
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Been looking at places to store my stuff, then dawned on me, i've lost all my stuff, so have nothing to backup now. Starting fresh, only about 6yrs of stuff on my laptop that i lost
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Sam
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Originally posted by John
Google will never do anything like that, people would leave in droves if they were using your documentation for anything other than targeted ads.
Just like they wouldn't store data from unencrypted WiFi networks without telling people eh? 
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Dom
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If that you're that worried about using Google, then encrypt (truecrypt etc) prior to uploading.
As Ed said, Backblaze! It's cheap and everything is encrypted on-the-fly. Alternatively and depending on how much storage you need, then Amazon's S3 storage can work out to be quite cheap.
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John
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Google know just about everything I do on the internet, I'm happy for them to have some useless data from a wifi network if it gives better positioning. Seeing what's in a couple of documents won't give them much extra.
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ed
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People upload everything to Facebook, they take total ownership of anything you put on there.
I'm sure Google's intentions are to just look through your docs using their automated systems to target advertising at you and offer other Google products. I don't see why they'd have any business taking your data and making it publicly available. The wording of the T&C's seems a bit, well, dodgy though.
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