The Beauty Of Local Backups
How-To Geek, Monday, July 1st, 2024
Cloud storage is amazingly convenient. We can all agree on that. So why bother backing up stuff the old-fashioned way? Well, here's why.
More than 2 billion people use some kind of personal iCloud, Google Drive, and OneDrive. It's an almost $200 billion a year industry. The popularity of the personal cloud is no surprise. It really makes your digital life easier.
That convenience comes at a price though (besides your hard-earned cash). Cloud services can lose your data. They get hacked and files get leaked. Sometimes they malfunction and give anyone who has your email access to your sensitive data. No password required. Outages happen all the time.