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An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card (www.techradar.com)
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An Apple fan who has spent “nearly 30 years as a loyal customer” says they’ve been “permanently” locked out of their Apple Account due to what might be the overzealous actions of Apple’s automated anti-fraud system. It’s left them locked out of “20 years of digital life,” and it all started with the seemingly straightforward purchase of an Apple gift card.

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[–] 42 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Cloud storage allows normal people to better realize a proper 3-2-1 backup strategy though, since it facilitates offsite storage.

That being said, my very important stuff is backed up to more than one cloud provider, just in case.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Absolutely, then people go and delete the other copies leaving just the cloud, and think that it's somehow fine.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    then people Microsoft go and delete the other copies leaving just the cloud,

    Line Microsoft Onedrive repeatedly forcefully and silently enabling on-demand constantly, then occasionally fucking up and deleting unsynced files

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    Yeah stuff like that, but also the locally synced copy I would not trust no matter what as really any sync software can suddenly delete or corrupt files. Best to have at least 2 actual backups in place that are versioned and done daily or every few hours.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Personally I don’t think the tradeoff is worth while. I put nothing remotely personal on other peoples computers. I’d rather lose everything. But it is not actually that big a problem, my brother has a backup that I update once a month in his safe in his house, and I have his. Should be good enough.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    That being said, my very important stuff is backed up to more than one cloud provider, just in case.

    The way things develop, you can't be sure that you are not banned on all accounts at the same time for political reasons.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Which is the reason for the local backup on my NAS - which is also in a RAID 5 configuration and can survive one drive failure with no loss of data, as well as the copies stored on the original devices. There would need to be a series of unfortunate events for me to lose everything.

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