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[Discuss] Cloud-backup solutions for Linux?



On 9/24/2015 3:22 PM, Matt Shields wrote:
> ownCloud has version control (

Version control is not backup. If the disk dies then the versioned files 
die with it.

> Also since I never delete from my S3 bucket where I have a nightly sync
> from ownCloud to, the risk of losing everything is low.  I also have up to
> 24 hours to recover files that might have been written over.

Create a file on Monday. Change and overwrite it on Tuesday. Discover on 
Thursday that you need Monday's version. Sure, you can put the files 
under some kind of version control but if the disk dies then the 
versioned files die with it.

-- 
Rich P.



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