OneDrive Sync Mechanics

@Dashrender said:

Do you really need them all synced?

Honestly, I am still afraid of having all my data there and there only.

I understand the odds of OneDrive losing all my data is slim. But wouldn't I look like an idiot if they did?

You and a zillion other people. Little comfort but I've heard misery loves company.

I share your distrust/caution of "other people's computer" (I refuse to use the C word one more time today)

I think there's a way to back it up to / from another cloud provider (probably amazon) if you want to keep it out of meat space.

BRRABill

@MattSpeller

It's not like I think my local machine is any better. I just worry about myself doing something dumb, or something like what happened to SAM where they just messed up.

If I have it in OneDrive, and then sync everything locally, I can just back that up and I am done. Have copied multiple places.

I looked into services that backup from on c-word to another, but they are pretty sloooooow considering the data I have.

It's also the reason I am hesitant to trust 100% anything, even, say, Amazon Cloud Drive. I lose all my kid's pictures...Let's just say I'll be moving in with one of you.

I'm not sure in an industry where we preach backups how we can be confident in any of these cloud services. Even if they do "backup" our data. Has anyone actually tested that yet?

scottalanmiller

@BRRABill said:

I'm not sure in an industry where we preach backups how we can be confident in any of these cloud services. Even if they do "backup" our data. Has anyone actually tested that yet?

Confidence in a specific service (never lump any two services together, that makes no sense and never think of "cloud" as a single thing, each service is unique, just as Super Mario Bros. 3 and MS Office 2013 are not related but both are proprietary, on premises software) has no relationship to preaching backups. We preach backups as a specific thing that is needed. This is no way violates that any more than a user relying on their IT department to run backups violates that rule.

Do you expect your users to all run their own backup mechanisms at work because "would they look foolish if they trusted that IT guy... does he even test his restores... and all their data was lost?"

Remember, you are the end user, they are IT. If you don't trust your provider, okay. But then, why are you using them, really?

BRRABill

@scottalanmiller

But data loss happens in more ways than your provider losing data.

Are you not a fan of the 3-2-1 philosophy?

I mean, we have no idea what these services are doing, right? You are contending that by "trusting" them we'll be able to reliably get back data?

scottalanmiller

@BRRABill said:

I mean, we have no idea what these services are doing, right? You are contending that by "trusting" them we'll be able to reliably get back data?

So.... this is how you feel that your customers or users should feel about you or your IT department?

scottalanmiller

@BRRABill said:

But data loss happens in more ways than your provider losing data.

Give an example that isn't covered by versioning.

BRRABill

@scottalanmiller said:

Give an example that isn't covered by versioning.

I inadvertently overwrite all this week's soccer pictures with pictures of the same name by mistake.

scottalanmiller

@BRRABill said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Give an example that isn't covered by versioning.

I inadvertently overwrite all this week's soccer pictures with pictures of the same name by mistake.

But versioning would cover that.

BRRABill

@scottalanmiller said:

So.... this is how you feel that your customers or users should feel about you or your IT department?

No, but I still have multiple copies of stuff as an IT person for them, because stuff happens.

BRRABill

@scottalanmiller said:

But versioning would cover that.

Not using OneDrive.

scottalanmiller

@BRRABill said:

@scottalanmiller said:

So.... this is how you feel that your customers or users should feel about you or your IT department?

No, but I still have multiple copies of stuff as an IT person for them, because stuff happens.

So you feel that in your role as a user that you should act differently than you want other users to act? Do as I say, not as I do?

scottalanmiller

@BRRABill said:

@scottalanmiller said:

But versioning would cover that.

Not using OneDrive.

Versioning covers it, plain and simple. What does OneDrive have to do with it?

BRRABill

@scottalanmiller said:

Versioning covers it, plain and simple. What does OneDrive have to do with it?

OneDrive only versions Microsoft files.

Granted, there are services that do versioning of ALL files.

scottalanmiller

@BRRABill said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Versioning covers it, plain and simple. What does OneDrive have to do with it?

OneDrive only versions Microsoft files.

Granted, there are services that do versioning of ALL files.

Right, versioning covers it. If you don't version, it doesn't cover it.

BRRABill

@scottalanmiller said:

Right, versioning covers it. If you don't version, it doesn't cover it.

How am I supposed to "version it" in OneDrive? If you mean that I should have known and renamed the files appropriately, I agree. But sometimes mistakes happens.

Hence the need for backup.

scottalanmiller

@BRRABill said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Right, versioning covers it. If you don't version, it doesn't cover it.

How am I supposed to "version it" in OneDrive? If you mean that I should have known and renamed the files appropriately, I agree. But sometimes mistakes happens.

Hence the need for backup.

You don't version in OneDrive, in that case, you version locally. Same with normal backups.

If you are using a Wiki, the wiki handles the versioning. Then you take a backup of the whole mechanism. That puts the full versioning into the backup. Now you have versioning and backups. You don't backup just one version, you backup the full data set.