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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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      @Dashrender said:

      Also, is the expectation then that someone is uploading their photos directly to flickr from their device? If so, why not just upload to 2+ online systems at the same time, and skip the upload/download/upload?

      Because I know of no one that would upload automatically, I know of no service that allows going to multiple places at once and that would require a lot more work. I think a single source and good backups work pretty effectively for images.

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      • DashrenderD
        Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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        @scottalanmiller said:

        @Dashrender said:

        Also, is the expectation then that someone is uploading their photos directly to flickr from their device? If so, why not just upload to 2+ online systems at the same time, and skip the upload/download/upload?

        Because I know of no one that would upload automatically, I know of no service that allows going to multiple places at once and that would require a lot more work. I think a single source and good backups work pretty effectively for images.

        Your iPhone won't push pictures to both flickr and One Drive ? Huh - Pretty sure my Windows Phone will. I'm pretty sure Android would as well.

        As for the desktop apps - having two apps sync the same folders to their cloud services should be possible.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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          @Dashrender said:

          Your iPhone won't push pictures to both flickr and One Drive ? Huh - Pretty sure my Windows Phone will. I'm pretty sure Android would as well.

          Maybe it will, I never try. I don't want anything pushed automatically so not something that I investigate.

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          • DashrenderD
            Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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            @scottalanmiller said:

            @Dashrender said:

            Your iPhone won't push pictures to both flickr and One Drive ? Huh - Pretty sure my Windows Phone will. I'm pretty sure Android would as well.

            Maybe it will, I never try. I don't want anything pushed automatically so not something that I investigate.

            Do you transfer all photos to your PC, and then backup from there?

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            • dafyreD
              dafyre
              last edited by

              @scottalanmiller -- Haven't you been having data issues with Microsoft for a while? It's not that I don't trust my cloud providers... As much as I simply don't know what they are doing to back up my data. That alone concerns me.

              If I had TBs of data in OneDrive, I'd expect Microsoft to be able to put back a single file, or my entire storage if they whoopsied my folders. I don't know how they are able to accomplish this, so I feel less safe with my data in OneDrive or Amazon Cloud than I do using a service like Crashplan or Backblaze.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                last edited by

                @Dashrender said:

                Do you transfer all photos to your PC, and then backup from there?

                No, nothing goes to my PC.

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                • Minion QueenM
                  Minion Queen
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                  You can do both OneDrive and Flicker from your phone it is great.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @dafyre
                    last edited by

                    @dafyre said:

                    @scottalanmiller -- Haven't you been having data issues with Microsoft for a while? It's not that I don't trust my cloud providers... As much as I simply don't know what they are doing to back up my data. That alone concerns me.

                    Yes, but not involving the backups.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @dafyre
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                      @dafyre said:

                      If I had TBs of data in OneDrive, I'd expect Microsoft to be able to put back a single file, or my entire storage if they whoopsied my folders.

                      they would never put back a file. It would always be a restore of the whole thing.

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                      • DashrenderD
                        Dashrender @dafyre
                        last edited by

                        @dafyre said:

                        @scottalanmiller -- Haven't you been having data issues with Microsoft for a while? It's not that I don't trust my cloud providers... As much as I simply don't know what they are doing to back up my data. That alone concerns me.

                        If I had TBs of data in OneDrive, I'd expect Microsoft to be able to put back a single file, or my entire storage if they whoopsied my folders. I don't know how they are able to accomplish this, so I feel less safe with my data in OneDrive or Amazon Cloud than I do using a service like Crashplan or Backblaze.

                        Those other services are geared toward exactly what you want - individual file restore, One Drive is not. Those other services are also a lot more money too.

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                        • DashrenderD
                          Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                          @scottalanmiller said:

                          @Dashrender said:

                          Do you transfer all photos to your PC, and then backup from there?

                          No, nothing goes to my PC.

                          So you backup manually only when on WiFi - what to save on data charges? Can't those apps be setup to only backup while on on WiFi? Sounding like a broken record, but I'm pretty sure both Android and WP can do that.

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                          • dafyreD
                            dafyre @Dashrender
                            last edited by

                            @Dashrender said:

                            @dafyre said:

                            @scottalanmiller -- Haven't you been having data issues with Microsoft for a while? It's not that I don't trust my cloud providers... As much as I simply don't know what they are doing to back up my data. That alone concerns me.

                            If I had TBs of data in OneDrive, I'd expect Microsoft to be able to put back a single file, or my entire storage if they whoopsied my folders. I don't know how they are able to accomplish this, so I feel less safe with my data in OneDrive or Amazon Cloud than I do using a service like Crashplan or Backblaze.

                            Those other services are geared toward exactly what you want - individual file restore, One Drive is not. Those other services are also a lot more money too.

                            While it is true that OneDrive is a different animal that Crashplan, at least with Crashplan, I know my data is stored in two additional paces. If I use OneDrive and only OneDrive, I'd be concerned about backups and such... So I'd still need another service to back up my OneDrive...because: Paranoid.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                              last edited by

                              @Dashrender said:

                              So you backup manually only when on WiFi - what to save on data charges? Can't those apps be setup to only backup while on on WiFi? Sounding like a broken record, but I'm pretty sure both Android and WP can do that.

                              I don't backup my phone at all, it is a phone, not a primary storage device.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @dafyre
                                last edited by

                                @dafyre said:

                                If I use OneDrive and only OneDrive, I'd be concerned about backups and such... So I'd still need another service to back up my OneDrive...because: Paranoid.

                                This is the "I don't trust the IT department" thing that I was saying above. Don't use any product if you distrust the vendor to this degree. If you think that they would not take backups, you also can't trust them not to steal your data. This concern, to me, should also eliminate Windows as a viable platform for you across the board. This is a level of trust that I feel you need from your OS vendor.

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                                • DashrenderD
                                  Dashrender @scottalanmiller
                                  last edited by

                                  @scottalanmiller said:

                                  @Dashrender said:

                                  So you backup manually only when on WiFi - what to save on data charges? Can't those apps be setup to only backup while on on WiFi? Sounding like a broken record, but I'm pretty sure both Android and WP can do that.

                                  I don't backup my phone at all, it is a phone, not a primary storage device.

                                  So you don't use it to take pictures?

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                                  • dafyreD
                                    dafyre @scottalanmiller
                                    last edited by

                                    @scottalanmiller said:

                                    @dafyre said:

                                    If I use OneDrive and only OneDrive, I'd be concerned about backups and such... So I'd still need another service to back up my OneDrive...because: Paranoid.

                                    This is the "I don't trust the IT department" thing that I was saying above. Don't use any product if you distrust the vendor to this degree. If you think that they would not take backups, you also can't trust them not to steal your data. This concern, to me, should also eliminate Windows as a viable platform for you across the board. This is a level of trust that I feel you need from your OS vendor.

                                    But can you trust closed source software? 😛

                                    And I'm trying to get away from Windows... but I also like to play various games, which sadly... require Windows.

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                                    • DashrenderD
                                      Dashrender @dafyre
                                      last edited by

                                      @dafyre said:

                                      @Dashrender said:

                                      @dafyre said:

                                      @scottalanmiller -- Haven't you been having data issues with Microsoft for a while? It's not that I don't trust my cloud providers... As much as I simply don't know what they are doing to back up my data. That alone concerns me.

                                      If I had TBs of data in OneDrive, I'd expect Microsoft to be able to put back a single file, or my entire storage if they whoopsied my folders. I don't know how they are able to accomplish this, so I feel less safe with my data in OneDrive or Amazon Cloud than I do using a service like Crashplan or Backblaze.

                                      Those other services are geared toward exactly what you want - individual file restore, One Drive is not. Those other services are also a lot more money too.

                                      While it is true that OneDrive is a different animal that Crashplan, at least with Crashplan, I know my data is stored in two additional paces. If I use OneDrive and only OneDrive, I'd be concerned about backups and such... So I'd still need another service to back up my OneDrive...because: Paranoid.

                                      I personally don't see MS selling OneDrive as a backup. Mobile Sharing - Perhaps even OMG - my phone died/lost/stolen, etc... but not as a real backup.

                                      Of course the normal consumer probably disagrees - I'd have to look at the settings - does it say - backup my device/photos, etc to OneDrive? It probably does - so I might be completely wrong.

                                      But I also know that it's a sync client, not a backup client - the two fundamentally work differently. Sync means both sides should stay the same - you encrypt your local copy.. that gets copied to the cloud... you delete the local copy, that deletion gets transferred to the cloud. But a backup isn't like that. Change you make to the live data should never affect the backup data. OneDrive, Google Drive, etc are definitely not sold in that manner.

                                      So as Scott mentioned - you're only hope is that they restore the whole thing, not a single file.

                                      And if you are that worried about a single file - then you need to invest into a backup solution, not a sync solution.

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                                      • DashrenderD
                                        Dashrender @scottalanmiller
                                        last edited by

                                        @scottalanmiller said:

                                        @dafyre said:

                                        If I use OneDrive and only OneDrive, I'd be concerned about backups and such... So I'd still need another service to back up my OneDrive...because: Paranoid.

                                        This is the "I don't trust the IT department" thing that I was saying above. Don't use any product if you distrust the vendor to this degree. If you think that they would not take backups, you also can't trust them not to steal your data. This concern, to me, should also eliminate Windows as a viable platform for you across the board. This is a level of trust that I feel you need from your OS vendor.

                                        Are you saying that Dafyre's mistrust of MS's backing up of their cloud storage constitutes mistrust of anything and everything they do? I suppose that makes sense when you write it out like that.

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                                        • BRRABillB
                                          BRRABill @dafyre
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                                          @dafyre said:

                                          While it is true that OneDrive is a different animal that Crashplan, at least with Crashplan, I know my data is stored in two additional paces. If I use OneDrive and only OneDrive, I'd be concerned about backups and such... So I'd still need another service to back up my OneDrive...because: Paranoid.

                                          This is my whole point.

                                          I've been burned too many times by
                                          a-my own stupidity
                                          b-other people's stupidity
                                          c-faulty hardware

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                                            last edited by

                                            @Dashrender said:

                                            @scottalanmiller said:

                                            @dafyre said:

                                            If I use OneDrive and only OneDrive, I'd be concerned about backups and such... So I'd still need another service to back up my OneDrive...because: Paranoid.

                                            This is the "I don't trust the IT department" thing that I was saying above. Don't use any product if you distrust the vendor to this degree. If you think that they would not take backups, you also can't trust them not to steal your data. This concern, to me, should also eliminate Windows as a viable platform for you across the board. This is a level of trust that I feel you need from your OS vendor.

                                            Are you saying that Dafyre's mistrust of MS's backing up of their cloud storage constitutes mistrust of anything and everything they do? I suppose that makes sense when you write it out like that.

                                            Basically, yes. Not everything. Like if you don't trust them with backups you might still trust them with video games. But it's a very basic mistrust when you think that they might be scamming you on backups. If you can't trust them when they say that they will take backups, where would you trust them?

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