This is Steveer Robbins.

Welcome to the get it done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

In the last episode, you heard about my friend who lost seven years worth of thesis work

because they didn't have good backups with their desktop machine.

Having on-site backups is one way to recover when you have a fight with your thesis advisor,

drag your thesis to the trash, and click empty trash, thinking, ha, that'll show you, stupid advisor.

Um, yeah, deleting your thesis to own your thesis advisor?

Nice.

But on-site backups still suffer from a problem.

When a dimensional portal opens up by your computer and sucks your processor and your backup

drives into the enchanted forest, you lose everything.

That's why you need to open your own dimensional portal and store your backups there too.

Fortunately, we have exactly such a portal, and it's called the cloud.

Cloud backup programs store your backups in the cloud where you can get to them

even if your physical computer and disk drives become incapacitated.

Although cloud backup providers do paint a rosy picture of milk and honey when describing

their services, cloud backup services are really far from perfect.

They have limited capacity, so you can't just backup up your entire drive, and their security and reliability is, well, it's out of your hands. You can't

store at all. storing terabytes of data in the cloud isn't really feasible. Unlike physical

hard drives, it's slow to upload to the cloud. Plus, many cloud backup services charge based on how much you store,

and you really don't want to store tons and tons of stuff that's just part of the operating

system and isn't really related to your data. For the cloud, you need to decide explicitly

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