In most cases, cloud providers will give you access to the most recent version of a synchronized file. Even though it is several years old, every point he makes is very relevant in today’s world.Īnother quick tidbit that most people overlook is that Dropbox, iCloud, OneDrive, or Google Drive usually isn’t an adequate backup for working data.

Please take a moment and read Scott’s excellent post. Make no mistake, people think backups and redundant backups are a waste of time and money until they actually need them. Scott Hanselman has an excellent blog post outlining why you should backup your data as well as how thorough you should be about it. Whether it is family photos or business documents, you typically will want to have an offsite backup in the event of a catastrophic disk failure or some other disaster such as a flood or fire. If you’re like me and you have an awesome Synology DiskStation (I have a 1515+), you probably want to back up the all important data that you are storing. Update the /usr/local/crashplan/bin/run.conf with the maximum value you want your java heap to be allowed to use: SRV_JAVA_OPTS='-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dapp=CrashPlanService -DappBaseName=CrashPlan -Xms20m -Xmx1024m =300 =300 .ttl=0 =0 =false' Backstory

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