It seams that every few days I receive an ad wanting me to store my data on the cloud I may be just an old sometimes narrow minded retired industrial design engineer with sometimes failing comprehensive communications skills but I simply cannot bring myself to buying a subscription to something like that
First off I cannot get my thinking around having to pay to store my stuff. TO me that is akin to having a house full of furniture you really don't want to get rid of but do not have a good way to store it in a protected manor so you put it in a mini storage eventually the monthly/ yearly fees amount to more than the stuff was worth, it having a value only to you and not worth selling.
Second I visualize those cloud type storage mediums as nothing more than a place for unscrupulous persons to snoop around in your private affairs
And thirdly technology is constantly on the more, sometimes for the better sometimes not as in the constantly changing operating systems of computers. A lot of things we have done on older computers if we did not upgrade our data with each software change much of that would be lost
I do not know what the ultimate panacea would be for preserving our treasured data would be for right now I try to do about the same as Marv does but admittedly not on as regular or regimented regime as he says he has. because currently I have 2 500 or 750 GB 2.5" hard drives that I cannot get to boot up and no way of knowing how many millions of photos drawings or documents I might have on them that are not stored on another Media