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1970-01-01yesterday at 6:53 PM1 replyview on HN

How is a local copy not the best way to store data?


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Twirrimyesterday at 9:16 PM

A local copy is inherently fragile. It's easily destroyed by accident, flood, fire etc. This is especially true when using a single storage device like an SD Card, vs the way that these storage services operate, leveraging things like erasure encoding.

Local backups are important, they're cheap, and often fast. They just shouldn't be the only kind of backup you do for data that is important to you.

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