Quote: (09-09-2014 06:11 AM)Moma Wrote:
To play devil's advocate, you have billion dollar industries that save their backups (financial sensitive data), company ending data in the cloud so if they can rely on the cloud, what makes your own personal data more important than a huge bank?
I know you're trying to make up an example to present a point, but in the real world: no they don't store those in "the cloud".
For your regular joe, Dropbox is not backup. Something is only considered backup if you can restore from it when shits go wrong.
For example, if you deleted or edited something accidentally last week and forgot about it until today, your changes would be synced to all Dropbox enabled devices and therefore you cannot restore from it.
Think about situations where you really need to restore something, and you can evaluate whether a service or device is good backup or not.