There's a misconception that you do not need to back up your cloud storage drive
because it's stored in the cloud and you do not need to back it up, because only
hard drives die. Things such as Apple's iCloud, Microsoft OneDrive, or Google Drive.
Although it's true that hard drives die and if the drive or when the
drive dies your files would still be safe in the cloud, there are other things
that can go wrong where you would be screwed unless you have a backup.
I'm going to explain what all those things are coming up...
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notified of future notifications of videos. So with the cloud storage it's
great because you can synchronize all your files between all your devices. Your
laptop, tablet, your phone and if the hard drive dies on your computer of course
it's in the cloud. So it's still there. But what most people don't realize is
these other three main problems that can happen, where even though it's stored in
the cloud, you'd still be screwed unless you backup those files. So before getting
into those three things, what you have to understand is cloud storage is not the
same thing as a cloud backup. Now with the cloud storage it's a convenience for
having it in the cloud to synchronize between multiple devices. Now if you have
a look at two different products here we got Google cloud and the Google Drive
shows that it synchronizes to this location on your hard drive. So it one is
synchronized to the computer. So any changes on one location happens to the
other. So the cloud affects the local drive file and the local copy affects
the cloud file and also that it takes up space on your computer. So that's another
misconception is thinking you're gonna free up drive space on your computer by
uploading it to the cloud. That's not true. You can see here that it does take
up space on your computer and that's where it's stored. So that's what the
Google Drive and looking at Microsoft OneDrive also you can go in here and see
where it is that it stores a file.
You can also change the location where it's stored, but it still wants to store and
synchronize on your computer. Now you don't have to synchronize it to your
computer. You can leave it in the cloud completely and just access the cloud
through a web browser but that's not very convenient. You want to have it
synchronized to your computer for your convenience. Okay so here's the three
reasons why you need to backup your cloud storage. One is accidental deletion.
It happens to the best of us. It's happened to me even. Slip of a finger and
you accidentally hit delete instead of copy or cut and it goes to the trash bin
if it's a local copy on your computer but with the Cloud Drive
there is no trash folder. It permanently deletes it. So it synchronizes that
deletion up to the cloud storage and wipes that are there as well and it's gone.
So the only way to get it back is to use a backup that you did and restore that file.
The second reason to backup your cloud storage
is encryption viruses. Now if you get an encryption virus, it encrypts all
the files on your computer and then they'll send you a message that pops up
saying we've just encrypted all the files on your computer, you pay us this
ransom fee and Bitcoin and we'll give you the key to unlock your files.
You pay the fee, usually they'll give you the key to unlock it and you got your files back;
or you got to go to a backup and restore the files from your backup. So I strongly
suggest using a backup. You don't want to pay anyone a ransom for your files.
No matter how bad you want it because that just encourages them to keep doing this scam;
and of course because the files on your computer are synchronized to the
cloud, that encryption synchronizes the encrypted file backup to the cloud so
those files stored in the cloud are also encrypted.
The third reason to backup your cloud storage drive is corruption of the file.
Now this can happen with power problems, power outs, black outs, Brown outs,
the computer crashing for some reason or the program itself that you're using to
edit that file crashes while in the middle of using a file. It becomes
corrupted possibly to the point where you can't open it anymore, you can't do
anything with it. All you can do is restore from the last good backup copy
that you have of that file. So even though it's stored in the cloud, because
you're working on that file, you corrupted it. The copy that's in the
cloud is corrupted and unusable. So again you can only restore it from the backup.
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