Get ready for parachute jumping from Heaven

After problems with the Google -om, Facebook -with a few days ago again and GMail -om, I wonder: how the move to cloud actually a good thing?

On the one hand, we have all the information and services centralized and globally available, mostly free. However, this is double-edged sword. Leaving aside now the question of privacy and data security (confidential data should never be kept in unsafe places) and just pay attention to one key advantage - the availability.

Just happened to me that the great YouTube briefly stopped working , just when I wanted something to see. I mean, it happens. Nothing is perfect. The advantage of such large systems is that they are backed company that is serious critical customer satisfaction. Whatever problems emerged, the same are resolved as soon as possible. Most users ever and do not know that and came up with the same.

But what if you here that you need something right now, and you are able to happen? Some would say that we still keep paper and pens, but they in addition to these advantages momentalnih still have all those flaws that make us from them and fled. But who to blame if there is a loss of important data? Google, Yahoo, Microsoft ... So really, anyone! All these fancy services that we use, we have (mostly) free. Let us be satisfied to them when they work, how they work and how to make our daily work. No mind in the head and do not rely on them. I always think 'what if ...' and have a backup plan.

Hardly anyone will mind if a lot of YT fit to work for a few minutes, but stop Gmail aa zbiljnije has already had consequences. Let this be the only indicator light, to prepare some more downtime. Maybe the whole Internet, your computer may, perhaps something of a third, smaller or larger.

Recently, I happened to (my (multiple) fault) dvih lost data from hard disk. With great difficulty I managed to Restore My almost the entire contents of the lost partitions, all the time thinking about how I had eskterni hard drive, and even a ton of space on the server and other services Zilion for backing up critical data, including the classic archiving onto DVD discs, and yet I have not used any of it. Not the right not to back-ups, but I do not do it regularly. And in any OS, there is a possibility that this is done automatically at a preset time interval.

For some events can not influence, or even problems with them we can not prevent, but for much of the unplanned downtime of the system can be constructed. Think for yourself what you think of your data (no matter what the data implied: business data, private collection of paintings, poems, programs, notes, phone numbers, ...). When did you last copied a list of contacts from the phonebook of your mobile phone? What if you happen to lose your phone? What if your hard drive fails? What if your house is gone up in flames?

Consider well what where you store and how much is safe where it is located. Think what you could download to increase the security of their data and other important things to you. Think about how much of your grace period at hand, but have not thought about that while you may not zdesila sick. Do not wait until something bad happens to you looking for a solution. Let these small signals to be alert, to well organize your essentials. So if you fly vrevisoko in Heaven, be prirpremljeni for unscheduled parachute drop and get ready. And remember, you sure as many as you like !