10-13-2015, 01:38 PM
Klaus, it's an American company. It's difficult to get by if you discover you're data abused.
Availabilty: I will never browse as fast through a hosted backup system as I can do at home. I will never rely exclusivley on a backup system somewhere in the internet. I have 10% upload speed as I have to download, so it takes ages to backup 2 TB once. So, this longer search periods you should add to the lack of availabilty. Handling altogether is slower, I suspect.
Another thing are the libraries of Aperture. Those are huge, so if I can't backup them in incrementals, I don't see myself waiting and leaving the Mac connected the whole night to Amazon servers. May backup systems do handle the incremental backup, but if I have to upload the whole lib after only a couple of changes - no way.
Depending on traffic, it also takes ages to download my files. How can I handle the preview? So I need to download folders and directories to get back one or a few files? The whole system is slow and out of reach if my router crashes or somebody hits a drill or an ecavator shovel into the phone or fibre line. According to Murphy it's only a question when it will happen, not if.
I use two backups alternating so in case I overvwrite a good with a bad file, I still have one more drive.
At last, I don't feel safe putting my digital life out of my reach. Be it Amazon, Sony, Apple, Nokia - all of those services are vulnerable and had suffered several successfull attacks. I'm not scared about my rock-, trees-, waterfall-pictures, it's just possible somebody could hijack the servers.
Availabilty: I will never browse as fast through a hosted backup system as I can do at home. I will never rely exclusivley on a backup system somewhere in the internet. I have 10% upload speed as I have to download, so it takes ages to backup 2 TB once. So, this longer search periods you should add to the lack of availabilty. Handling altogether is slower, I suspect.
Another thing are the libraries of Aperture. Those are huge, so if I can't backup them in incrementals, I don't see myself waiting and leaving the Mac connected the whole night to Amazon servers. May backup systems do handle the incremental backup, but if I have to upload the whole lib after only a couple of changes - no way.
Depending on traffic, it also takes ages to download my files. How can I handle the preview? So I need to download folders and directories to get back one or a few files? The whole system is slow and out of reach if my router crashes or somebody hits a drill or an ecavator shovel into the phone or fibre line. According to Murphy it's only a question when it will happen, not if.
I use two backups alternating so in case I overvwrite a good with a bad file, I still have one more drive.
At last, I don't feel safe putting my digital life out of my reach. Be it Amazon, Sony, Apple, Nokia - all of those services are vulnerable and had suffered several successfull attacks. I'm not scared about my rock-, trees-, waterfall-pictures, it's just possible somebody could hijack the servers.