CLOUD CUCKOO LAND
We live in an industrial town with a population of 160,000, two miles from a telephone exchange, and yet the technical difficulties of installing fibre to our estate are too immense to overcome.
Though our download speed is sufficient to watch Netflix, we have an upload speed of 0.75Mbps. which means I’ve never wanted to face the problems of backing up a large amount of data to the cloud.
In writing future articles could you, on occasions, bear in mind that not all readers do not, cannot, link to the cloud. by david piedot
ROB SAYS…
If you’re lucky enough to have a superfast fibre connection, backing up your Mac to the cloud is perfectly achievable – for the rest of us, not so much.
We always try to suggest alternatives, such as backing up your data to an external drive using Time Machine. However, we’d advise a belts-and-braces approach – ideally, you should have multiple backups of your data: onsite (kept in a secure/fireproof cabinet) and offsite. ‘Offsite’ could mean a cloud-based backup, or you could keep a copy of your data elsewhere – such as at a trusted friend’s home, for example.
The downside is that keeping your data offsite in this way simply isn’t as convenient as cloud-based methods. You’ll also need to ensure that the ‘offsite’ backup is kept as up to date as possible (you might want to keep daily, weekly and even monthly backups of your data) so if something does go wrong, you’ll be able to get up and running again.