{"id":307,"date":"2009-06-24T05:17:20","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T12:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2009-06-24T05:18:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T12:18:31","slug":"forget-my-hard-drive-im-moving-to-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/forget-my-hard-drive-im-moving-to-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget my hard drive, I’m moving to the cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"BSOD<\/a>
"BSOD Stop c218" by Justin Marty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A couple weeks ago, I pulled out my laptop and noticed a suspicious splash of water sandwiched between the plastic case and the computer. Pressing the power button yielded nothing but a sad, whirring fan. I was seriously bummed about losing my expensive laptop, but I took solace in the fact that I’ve been obediently backing up my computer with Time Machine and an external hard drive for the last year.<\/p>\n

So imagine my dismay when my external hard drive refused to be read.<\/p>\n

As it turned out, my hard drive’s moodiness was only temporary. It’s now working fine, as far as I can tell, and my dissertation and other crucial files (adorable photos of my dog!) are now residing peacefully on my new computer.<\/p>\n

Still, those heart-in-throat few days were enough to scare me out of complacency. As far as I knew, the only documents to survive were those that I’d stored remotely: in my online Dropbox<\/a> and in Zotero<\/a>‘s online storage option. It’s not hard to imagine situations in which both my computer and my external hard drive would be toast: a roof leak, a fire, a poorly placed cup of coffee. Plus, all hard drives fail after a while. That’s just how they’re built.<\/p>\n

So I’m moving to remote backup of my data. There’s a lot of hand-wringing about storing data in the “cloud<\/a>” (a term applied to Internet-based storage and services): privacy issues, reliability concerns, etc. But I have absolutely no doubt that my data will be safer in the cloud than in my accident-prone paws.<\/p>\n

Mozy<\/a> is probably the best-known option for remote backup. But after doing some research (and getting Andy to try it out) I discovered that many Mac users find Mozy’s client to be buggy and slow. Instead, I’ve gone with Backblaze<\/a>. Like Mozy, it’s $5 a month for unlimited storage, and so far it seems to be working just fine.<\/p>\n

Then again, that’s what I thought about my hard drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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