| Registered: January 27, 2009 |  Posts: 181 |
| | Posted: | | | | I am from a country that has expensive (by world terms) internet.
Every plan from all providers are capped. One provider offered unlimited, but some idiots abused it by continuously downloading Terabytes of stuff. Honestly more than they could ever hope to use or watch. The closest we now have is one company that after cap reached thottles your speed back to Dialup speeds.
Anyway, I am waiting for the fun when people start using clould services to backup their pads and pods. You have a 32gig pod and decide to let the Cloud back it up, umm, 10 20 gig of data on a capped 5 gig plan.
Or does the cloud have some brains, and look at your music and only upload tracks that it does not already have in itunes store?
But if you blow away your device, you will have to DL your entire tunes library anyway.
So does Apple have smarts built in to not backup from us 3rd World internet countries, or just treat the rest of the world like we have unlimited bandwidth?
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 4,596 |
| | Posted: | | | | No way I'm using iCloud. Too much risk in allowing a 3rd party store my data. External HDDs are relatively inexpensive and I'll stick to local backups. Hackers are already targeting clouds and all I'd need is to have my data either 1) stolen or 2) infected with trojans or viruses. | | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 2,337 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting 8ballMax: Quote:
No way I'm using iCloud. Too much risk in allowing a 3rd party store my data. External HDDs are relatively inexpensive and I'll stick to local backups. Hackers are already targeting clouds and all I'd need is to have my data either 1) stolen or 2) infected with trojans or viruses. I Agree, after reading their terms of use one have to be insane to store backups (or any data) on iCloud. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,321 |
| | Posted: | | | | Let's not blow this out of proportion. First of all, if you delve into it a little more, you'll notice that you can explicitly choose what data you want backed up. Personally, I'm thrilled I'm able to quickly and easily backup saved games and the like. Ditto with other important stuff. Still, the data I care to keep private is already using 512-bit AES encryption on my phone (eWallet). Or it's in my photo/video safe. In addition, that data isn't backed up to the cloud. There's no need. Should I loose it, I can restore from the desktop software I have on my home computer. Much like DVDProfiler for iOS, there's no need to backup data that can easily be restored from my PC.
As for the size, when I first signed up, it told me I had too much data to backup for the free 5GB. After telling it what I didn't want backed up, I got that 5GB down to about 290MB. So the backup wasn't all that bad. Of course the real unknown at this point is if subsequent backups are deltas or complete backups each time. Haven't really paid too my attention to that one to be honest. | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here.
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