Re: Cloud backups versus lightning strikes

[Matt Palmer <mpalmer () hezmatt org>]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 08:44:03PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
> As the saying goes, cloud computing is just someone else's computer. Always
> backup your cloud backups... in your backup.

This was data loss on GCE "persistent disks" (equivalent to AWS EBS), not
archival storage.  Hopefully very few people are using persistent disks as
*backup* storage (if nothing else, it's more expensive).

The general point is still valid, though -- *any* single instance of data is
vulnerable to loss, whether it's on your computer, or someone else's. 
Backups are never optional.

- Matt