They differentiate themselves using their pricing models, level of privacy and enriched device support and features. With the boom of the “cloud” several companies started to offer cloud backup services. If for some reason your luggage is stolen or destroyed so will be your data, which eliminates the whole advantages of a backup. It adds inconvenience to the trip but more importantly it vastly reduces the safety of the backup. Holding an external drive wherever you go during your traveling is not an ideal scenario. To that we also need to add (since the vast majority of them are not solid state) problems caused by sudden power failures and psychical shocks (). Firstly they can die because they can! As with any electronic equipment random hardware failures can be an issue. There are so many reasons that an external hard drive can fail that is actually scary. Reasons to avoid local backup using external USB drives

This process is straightforward but it suffers from numerous issues. Instead of copying files from the file manager I automated the procedure using the awesome rsync( ) tool and a bit of bash scripting. Until now I used an external USB drive for all my backups. Recently I decided that I want to improve my backup routine.

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