I don't trust the cloud. All my stuff is on my primary raid in my computer, backed up to external drives twice a week, 3-4 times a year archived to DVD in a diff fashion and stored at a location other than my house. I used to work in DR in IT, so i have a "lets pretend my house explodes" option, hence the off-site copies of things. The only data I care about protecting are my photographs, and as a professional photography who shoots concerts/weddings/modeling, I have a respect to my client to both maintain that data, and keep it private. And with the "moving window" of copyright law and what the cloud providers are allowed to do or not do with my data, I'd like to just keep it to myself with my own backup and distribution methods. I just don't want all of my photo work to be anywhere else other than in my possesion or my clients. I'm probably the only photographer who doesn't have a Flickr page or post his shit on the internet. Because if my pictures got leaked or out there, good luck ever getting them back. It's like taking pee out of a pool.
too right. I also keep one of my time machine backups off site, and just rotate them regularly. I work for a DR company now, and it's easy for my brain to slip into "world war 3 - what happens now?" mode. but my interest in cloud is a little less about DR, and more about some convenience. Like what I get out of dropbox, but I'm looking for more than a couple of gigs. I'm still working my way up on the referrals like kleinbl00.It's like taking pee out of a pool.