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In response to "We have a place down the street from us we've used once for a recovery operation. Was $1600 -- nm" by oblique

holy shit -- nm

Posted by mud Oct 15 '24, 11:16

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It's time intensive and requires special tools and skills. - JD Oct 15, 11:20
A good reminder that cloud backup stuff is easy and generally inexpensive if not free for most day to day usage -- nm - oblique Oct 15, 11:17 11
- My dad, a former career IBM exec, thinks he's smarter than MS and is convinced cloud is just a way for people to do bad things with your data - Max Oct 15, 11:30 6
  - 🤔 Isn't IBM like all services these days? Including some cloud based ones? -- nm - JD Oct 15, 11:36 2
    - He retired in the 90s. -- nm - Max Oct 15, 11:39 1
      - and doesn't trust the current direction of the company ;-) -- nm - JD Oct 15, 11:40
  - sounds like my FIL. He was still backing up his financial data on floppy disks last I knew -- nm - oblique Oct 15, 11:35 2
    - If it's good enough for the nuclear codes, it's good enough for me -- nm - decline Oct 15, 11:35 1
      - Well, yeah. And in an obsolete kind of way, on a day to day, practical basis, hack proof -- nm - JD Oct 15, 11:37
- 3/2/1 has saved my ass numerous times -- nm - Reagen Oct 15, 11:27
- I back up all the music and porn on an external. -- nm - mud Oct 15, 11:20 2
  - You save porn? I kind of always considered it throwaway. - Qale Oct 15, 11:26 1
    - I was mostly being silly. - mud Oct 15, 11:34

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