Re: Backup to cloud?
From: Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex_at_attglobal.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 00:51:26 -0500
Message-ID: <o2vva4$hst$1_at_jstuckle.eternal-september.org>
>
> This is possibly the best trolling post I've seen this year. And it's
> December 15th in an election year.
>
> (In the long odds that it's a serious post, the whole benefit for this
> is that you're putting your backup someplace else than just your own
> computer. So however you do that, even to the point of putting the
> backup on a USB stick that you leave at Mom's house once a week and take
> home the one you made two weeks ago, is good enough.)
>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 00:51:26 -0500
Message-ID: <o2vva4$hst$1_at_jstuckle.eternal-september.org>
On 12/15/2016 2:56 PM, Peter H. Coffin wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:37:41 -0500, Rhino wrote:
>> I know of The Cloud but I haven't had to write code that works with the >> cloud yet. Is it possible to back up a MySQL database (using the current >> Windows version) to the cloud? If so, how does one write the command to >> do so? I'm not sure what the syntax should look like. >> >> If it is not possible to do a backup directly to the cloud, how could I >> do it indirectly?
>
> This is possibly the best trolling post I've seen this year. And it's
> December 15th in an election year.
>
> (In the long odds that it's a serious post, the whole benefit for this
> is that you're putting your backup someplace else than just your own
> computer. So however you do that, even to the point of putting the
> backup on a USB stick that you leave at Mom's house once a week and take
> home the one you made two weeks ago, is good enough.)
>
I actually think a cloud backup is not a bad idea. It's off-site, available anywhere you have a computer and an internet connection and (trusted) others can access it if you're unavailable. I have a few encrypted files on DropBox, but am thinking of backing up everything the cloud.
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