Let's talk cloud.

I'll be the first to admit I don't know much about the cloud. However, I've been using Dropbox for a couple months and I like what it has to offer.

My question is this: Dropbox obviously only works if the files are in your folder. But what if my computer crashes or my little brother accidentally deletes my shit? I guess what I'd be interested in is a drive backup of sorts (not everything, just some stuff) rather than file synchronization.

There's about a million cloud companies nowadays and I have no idea where to look. Can any monkeys recommend a place?

 
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i doubt you'll ever be able to find a way to idiot proof your computer from little brothers if they have access, but dropbox is there because of the fact that your computer can crash. if your computer crashes, you can access every one of your files through dropbox.com from any other computer, or even from an ipad or iphone. That's the reason the cloud exists--so that you don't have to worry about losing files through a computer crashing or something of the sort. Obviously this isn't something that can stop a brother from deleting shit, and the only real way to do that would be an external HDD or keeping shit on a flash drive. Currently, I'd assume dropbox is the best cloud company out there. I absolutely love it--especially the ability to share with others and have a sort of "communal cloud"

 
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i doubt you'll ever be able to find a way to idiot proof your computer from little brothers if they have access, but dropbox is there because of the fact that your computer can crash. if your computer crashes, you can access every one of your files through dropbox.com from any other computer, or even from an ipad or iphone. That's the reason the cloud exists--so that you don't have to worry about losing files through a computer crashing or something of the sort. Obviously this isn't something that can stop a brother from deleting shit, and the only real way to do that would be an external HDD or keeping shit on a flash drive. Currently, I'd assume dropbox is the best cloud company out there. I absolutely love it--especially the ability to share with others and have a sort of "communal cloud"

I guess that's true - Dropbox requires the internet to sync but if my computer were to crash, it wouldn't boot up and be able to sync.

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SECfinance:
I guess that's true - Dropbox requires the internet to sync but if my computer were to crash, it wouldn't boot up and be able to sync.
You idiot - it has ALREADY synced (assuming you installed Dropbox before the crash), thus your data is ALREADY on Dropbox's servers. This is the whole point of Dropbox - buy a new PC, install Dropbox, and everything will sync back down onto your hard drive.
go.with.the.flow:
Eddie pretty much everyone owns your shit as the data is sitting on their servers. It also depends which tier security the cloud provider is using. Tier 4 being the fucking Fort Knox of server security.
There's a big difference between where your data is physically and who owns it/what rights are transferred with it. Dropbox is very clear that even though the data is on their servers, it remains your property, you retain all copyrights, they wont share it with anyone else, they won't run anonymized data mining algorithms on it, etc. I haven't read the Google Drive TOS, but I expect Eddie is saying it doesn't offer the same protections.
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Edmundo Braverman:
Both Amazon and Google offer cloud drives, but be careful with the Google Drive TOS because they pretty much own your shit.

Dropbox FTMFW.

Eddie pretty much everyone owns your shit as the data is sitting on their servers. It also depends which tier security the cloud provider is using. Tier 4 being the fucking Fort Knox of server security.

 

Some electronic freedom group (not EFF I don't think) talked about the Google Drive TOS. Pretty much what they said was it technically gives them power over your material, but they need that power to allow you to access that material from their servers (paraphrasing/simplifying obviously).

The second Google uses their TOS to "steal" someone's property is the second they lose all credibility and their business goes into the hole. They know this and they won't fuck with it. What does worry me is the implications on who they can hand it over to (government agency-wise)

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