Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
1. copy to hard disk<p>2. buy a new drive every year and copy it forward<p>3. store a copy with relatives<p>Note that a cloud provider:<p>1. can shut off your access at any time, by accident or on purpose, and you have no recourse<p>2. will sell your data to anyone at any time<p>3. will give it to any government for the asking<p>4. will leak it to any hacker<p>5. will allow employees of said cloud provider to browse your data<p>6. will scan it to use it to sell you ads<p>7. will scan it looking for anything they don&#x27;t approve of this week, and take &quot;corrective action&quot;<p>8. if you&#x27;ve got terabytes, good luck trying to download it