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Yup, thats what I do...

 

I never say that it will happen to everyone and that is good, I don't go around hoping that everyone has some kind of disaster.
But you can dismiss that it will never happen to anyone. If you look there is quite lot of examples. If your profile is correct you live in Germany at least you don't have to worry about earthquakes/tsunamis etc because chance to have one over there is very slim close to 0 but not 0. There is lots of natural disasters that don't leave much time to take your data when they come. House fires although doesn't happen to everyone in their lifetimes isn't so uncommon that it will not happen to someone.
There is never enough preparation for emergency. And I'm not the type that worry too much or is paranoid. My wife insist that i don't worry enough about emergency supplies etc. in case of big earthquake and tsunami like one in 2011 Tohoku. I live like few hundred kilometers from that earthquake's epicenter.

 

Hi there
flooding regularly happens in Germany and will continue to get worse !! so even in a sophisticated rich country like Germany you can't guarantee that the servers or your property will be immune to those sort of problems.

Like any sort of insurance it's risk assessment --depends on how valuable you think your data is and what is the value or effort of protecting it.

Some things are beyond monetary value and can't be replaced.

Cheers
jimbo

 

The little river that runs thru our town is about 50 meters below my house. I don't think it will get me. Here is a view from my living room window.

 

Thanks Dave,

just activated it


Jeff

 

Nice front yard Wolfgang.

It's simple folks.
One has to put their own value on their own data of all kinds.
Then one has to decide what methods to protect that data.
To me storage is cheap. Years ago 1 TB would cost as much as a car. Today it cost as much as a dinner in a good
restaurant.
For me Clouds are foolish.
First one has to be confident that the Cloud will be there tomorrow. Some Cloud companies have went under.
Some Cloud companies keep changing the rules.
If you decide to move from one Cloud company to another Cloud company are you really sure that all your data
is erase/deleted from the old Cloud company?
We all have been using Clouds for ever. It's called email which is stored in a Cloud. I do believe most of us know that
email account get hacked often.
I really can't think of much that doesn't get hacked once stored on a remote location. I'm thinking of bank accounts, credit card accounts, Paypal accounts, Ebay accounts, Hillary's email and on and on. They all have been hacked.
Once your date is left in the hands of someone else it is less secure.

To me my data has less chance of damage or stolen because of floods, fires or a thief than it does being stored in a Cloud.
One just has to make a informed decision on what methods to use for their data.
I personally make backups to a external drive and store it in my home.
If my house burns down I got bigger problems. If a thief breaks in, well I need the target practice.
If a government agency need to have a look all they have to do is bring fresh coffee and look until they get bored.

I told you I do thing simple.

 

Yeah, that front yard is nice since we have 2 terasses on 2 levels. They are actually above the garages. We live on the first floor which in reality is the 3d floor because of the garages,

 

Here is the safest place for data as long a you can remember it. *chuckle








(My lighting is terrible that is the back of my head.) The safest place for data is in your own head. *Smile

 

You can completely disable it in gpedit, including synching stettings etc.

 

Thanks for warnings about keeping the 15GB. I just signed up. Had to give OD permissions to do so, but then backed out in settings.

 

you can keep the 30GB (15 + 15 for the camera bonus)

 

lx07 - I'm not a photo person and have ignored the photo bonus until now. How do I grab that additional 15GB for photos?

 

I don't know if you still can but in the past you only had to upload one .jpg (could be anything even a screen print) then they would give you an extra 15GB "Camera Roll" Bonus.

Try taking a picture of yourself (or your wall if you prefer) using the Photo app. That should trigger it unless the bonus is cancelled now.

 

I'm not sure it's still available. If I remember correctly you had to enable auto upload your pictures on a Windows device.

 

I think I got it when I did the Phone Companion app on PC to link my Samsung S4 to One Drive auto photo upload. There's nothing stopping you from putting other file/docs in the Camera Roll folder, I just did it. It showed up in the "Cloud" in my Camera Roll folder (Photos).