{"id":817,"date":"2008-08-11T16:40:43","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T15:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/817-backup-a-gap-in-googles-online-services.html"},"modified":"2008-08-11T16:40:43","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T15:40:43","slug":"backup-a-gap-in-googles-online-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/817-backup-a-gap-in-googles-online-services.html","title":{"rendered":"Backup: a gap in Google\u2019s online services"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slashdot has a discussion<\/a> on Google and backup. The question: <\/p>\n

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I am doing almost all of my computing in the cloud. Google Reader, Calender, Email, Docs and Notes have become my tools of choice \u2026 is there a one-touch solution that will take all my data from the various online apps and archive it on my home server?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The answer appears to be \u201cNo\u201d \u2013 that is, there are ways of doing this with scripts, offline email clients and so on, but there is no one-touch solution.<\/p>\n

It strikes me as a valid concern. It is not just a matter of trusting Google not to zap your data accidentally \u2013 though Google accounts have been known to disappear<\/a>. Another scenario is that someone guesses your password, or grabs it via keystroke capture, and deletes stuff on your behalf. It just isn\u2019t sensible to have only one copy of data that matters to you.<\/p>\n

Arguably this is one advantage of synchronization services like Live Mesh<\/a>, but these have a flaw too. Synchronization will happily copy a corrupt document over all your good copies. That\u2019s why I like version control systems \u2013 they keep a history.<\/p>\n

Even in the admin features of the premier edition<\/a>, aimed at businesses, I don\u2019t see backup covered.<\/p>\n

It can\u2019t be that hard to fix this with something like, say, differential backups from Google to Amazon S3<\/a>. It would be unlucky to fall out with both companies simultaneously.<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: google<\/a>, backup<\/a>, live mesh<\/a>, internet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Slashdot has a discussion on Google and backup. The question: I am doing almost all of my computing in the cloud. Google Reader, Calender, Email, Docs and Notes have become my tools of choice \u2026 is there a one-touch solution that will take all my data from the various online apps and archive it on … Continue reading Backup: a gap in Google\u2019s online services<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}