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May 12, 2025
You think your data is safe in the cloud because it's state-of-the-art storage. But what happens if the server farm is hacked, or suffers physical damage that takes it off-line. Who's responsible for recovering your lost data? One of our subscribers wanted to know and I went in search of answers. What I discovered may surprise you.
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the way we store our stuff boy it sure
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has changed over the years Do you
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remember the floppy disc how about the
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MP8 and of course there was the writable
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DVD Don't forget VHS tapes and good old
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beta And there were also pre-recorded
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movies on DVDs All of this is now
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obsolete and that means everything is
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now stored in the cloud
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The cloud is somebody else's storage
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that you're paying for right so just how
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secure and permanent is the cloud
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considering that all of our devices are
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now connected to it well that was a
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question posed by one of my subscribers
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He wanted to know how safe are his
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life's holdings and documents with
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Google Dropbox Amazon Apple Adobe etc Do
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they get hacked on a regular basis and
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what if they shut down so I asked the
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chief technology strategist of managed
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IT solutions what's the deal if you ever
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read the enduser license agreement which
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nobody ever does uh they will tell you
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right there up front that you know it's
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your data You're responsible for backing
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it up They're not responsible for any
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data that's been lost So if you want to
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keep your data secure you need a
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separate backup and not a synced copy A
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sync just means that you've got a copy
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in in two places which sounds like a
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backup It's just there's there's not as
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much um control over syncs Syncs will
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fail and most end users won't notice the
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sync has failed We've seen that time and
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again as well Downs recommends something
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called a networkattached storage device
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which connects to your home or office
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network I went online and found they
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range from a couple hundred up to
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several thousand depending on your
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storage needs Do the hackers ever go
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after these big big clients like Google
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and Dropbox and Apple and so forth oh
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yeah I mean they're I don't know if
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they're as big a target as they used to
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be in the earlier days the good old days
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10 years ago Yeah they were huge targets
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right and they're still a target They're
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always they're always fending off
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attacks However D says don't worry so
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much about hackers getting your data
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from the big cloud guys What hackers
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really want is they want the data And so
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data takes takes time to move especially
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if you're trying to be stealthy about it
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If I start taking down you know
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gigabytes and terabytes of data in less
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than a day or two days then they're
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going to see that much data transfer and
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it's going to raise a lot of red flags
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You no doubt have heard the phrase "It's
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carved in stone." Well if that stone
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happens to have crystals in it guess
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what crystal storage is coming But the
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amount of data that you can put into a
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small crystal is a diamond and you know
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is just it's huge Uh it's a large amount
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of data It's estimated worldwide every
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minute a couple of hundred megabytes of
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data is produced That is a lot of stuff
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to store In choosing your own storage
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needs here are a couple of factors to
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consider First of all data volume
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Exactly how much data are you producing
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second of all look at accessibility Who
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needs it how many devices and how often
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and finally of course your budget And
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that's going to be the biggest player
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working for you I'm the consumer guy
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Steve Spraer
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