Cloud backups versus lightning strikes

[george.herbert at gmail.com (George Herbert)]

My read on the situation is Yet Another Intermediate Cacheing Fail in storage, a well known problem.  Yes, do a pull the power test on your storage so you KNOW what's committed...

George William Herbert
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> On Aug 19, 2015, at 5:44 PM, Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:
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> As the saying goes, cloud computing is just someone else's computer. Always backup your cloud backups... in your backup.
> 
> Google's spokesperson used the percentage statistic to avoid how
> much data was lost.  Other cloud providers have also lost customer
> data due to various problems.  While a well-run cloud service provider
> is more reliable than keeping data under your mattress (just like a well-run bank is better than keeping cash under your mattress), its
> not magic.
> 
> Nature is still more powerful than even Google.
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> http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33989384
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> Google says data has been wiped from discs at one of its data centres in Belgium - after it was struck by lightning four times.
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> Some people have permanently lost access to their files as a result.
>