Originally posted by Gordon:
Actually not really, you miss the main advantage. In layman's terms its 3 or 5 gigs of data storage somewhere else than where your computer is. An external HDD is great until your house floods, burns down or gets burgled, unless of course you store the external HDD somewhere out of the building too.
Also has the downside of trusting your backups to a third party company that may or may not be in business in 6 months time, so its worth understanding the data retrival options under all circumstances. People have been burned like this in the past. |
I am not a small business so my viewpoint may vary. If my data is lost no one is affected but me. But I would think that the security issues of third party access to, and storage of data, would outweigh the offsite advantage. If you are in business, presumably, other people and companies have entrusted you with their info; and you have a responsibility to safeguard it. And if you let the third party do automated backup, then you have given them access to your computer as well as to your, and your customer's, data. And then there is the other third party (or should I say fourth party?) involved, PayPal, which will have a record of all your financial transactions with your data storage provider.
Could be a Pandora's Box.
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