Storage or VPN

[goo_mason]

Personal. And if anyone steals my laptops, PC or NAS (or they're lost in a fire, or one or the other suffers a catastrophic HDD failure) my data and software is safe because it's all backed up on the cloud (and external drives). Password security isn't the issue behind this backup paranoia for me - it's data and software. I've had two HDD failures in the last 16 years, and want to keep making sure that 16 years of photos and 10 years of podcasting (amongst other irreplaceable data) aren't lost forever. Between my various devices I have terabytes of data that I want to keep safe :-)

Just think how many times you hear of people saying their system or device failed and they lost everything, and how they learned the lesson the hard way about doing regular backups...

(The VPN is for online security/anonymity/working round regional restrictions)

 

[CopperBrompton]

[QUOTE 4163514, member: 259"]Why are you messing around with complicated solutions? If you only have that much data, buy a couple of 128gb USB keys and copy everything to them every week. Keep one at work and the other in the neighbour's house or wherever.[/QUOTE]
Nope: a backup that requires manual action is a backup that doesn't really exist. Any backup regime needs to be fully automated.

These days, it's a doddle to set up automated off-site backup using services like Dropbox and BackBlaze. Not sure I'd trust a '£35 for life' service to be in business very long, though.

VPN is handy for Netflix as there's a much greater choice of shows in the USA. The company says it's clamping down on VPNs but so far mine still works fine.