Anybody use Xara Cloud just as a backup for your personal files, i.e. My Documents, Desk Top, Xara drawings etc.?
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Anybody use Xara Cloud just as a backup for your personal files, i.e. My Documents, Desk Top, Xara drawings etc.?
This may just be me, but I do not trust the cloud to keep information safe. The cloud is just a fancy word for an internet site with servers and these can be hacked, some easier than others.
External hard drives are inexpensive such as this 4TB drive from Seagate https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Backu...ackup+drivefor $99. This is what I use. It's slightly larger than a deck of cards!
One set back with that is you can only access this drive from your home computers Gary. So if you want to access a file from your mobile whilst away from home, you can't. I do agree re the security issues though.
On Ron's issue with the Xara Cloud as a backup I'm not convinced it's the best solution. I prefer to access my files via Google Drive & Dropbox.
This backup drive that I have Egg as I said is old slightly larger than a deck of cards and 3/4" deep. So it is very portable.
Considering that Google has kept copies of all Android phone calls and text, I would not trust Google any further than I could throw them.
Xara cloud connects to your cloud storage drives, we don't provide any storage options currently. I would always recommend syncing your critical designs to another storage device regardless. Cloud storage providers mirror your data across several servers for redundancy so it's extremely unlikely for you to lose any data if you do use them, privacy concerns aside :)
Gary.. keeping your backups in the same physical location as your computer does not give you much protection from fire [unless you have a good firesafe and you use it], natural disasters, or from house theft
If you are worried about security upload your data in an encrypted format - hackers rarely have time to mess with encrypted data unless they are targeting you specifically for some 'good' reason
and remember to a computer there are no special characters, just characters.. the best encryption passwords are the really long ones
I am going to move this to Off Topic Chat since as Rob has pointed out, Xara Cloud is not really a storage option.
Paul A wrote me and pointed out a few things about Cloud Storage I had not considered. I share it here.
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There are other things to consider besides the idea that people may
access your cloud-based data.
Data security is about having copies of data in more than one place so
there is no single point of failure.
So, with an external drive backup ( or a cloud backup ), there are two
copies - one on your computer, the other on your backup device. If the
computer fails your backup device (cloud or external drive) should save you.
Commercial companies go a stage further - they take data copies perhaps
having more than one backup device, offsite. So one backup at one
facility and another backup at another facility. Why bother?
When we have a backup drive we hopefully eradicate the single point of
hardware failure, but our data is still in danger.
We might get the bad guys pay a visit and it's highly likely that they
take both the computer AND the external drive and so everything is then
lost.
We might be unlucky and have a fire and the computer and the backup is
destroyed so everything is lost.
All I'm saying is that data safety isn't completely solved by having an
external drive. You can still lose everything.
If a disaster happens with my machine and external drives (I have an
automated backup saving to a home network drive), then most of my data
will still be there for me to recover after all my computers and hard
drives are gone.
I understand your distrust of cloud-based services, but to be safe with
an external drive you can't keep it in the house and if you live in an
area where forest fires may strike, it would need to be located in
another safe place.
We all live in an era when so much data will be lost because there is no
physical equivalent such as printed photographs and documents that will
survive data carelessness.
yep that is more or less what I said.. using a few more words... ;)
if you encrypt your data before you back it up, in a secure container such as veracrypt [do not use 7zip or similar] then you add to the complexity of the hacking operation - if you are paranoid you can put an encrypted container within an encrypted container, within.... as many as you feel necessary..
and:
i have a pig his name is billy he wears a wig and he looks silly because the wig he chose, slips down and bounces off his nose
which I just made up would therfore be be a secure password - note no capitals or so-called 'special' characters that are trendy.. just lots of characters [spaces included]
This is true to a degree, but having to type a password that's 126 letters would get very laborious very quickly :) A mixture of lowercase, uppercase, numbers and special characters would be quicker to type and satisfy security requirements.
http://resources.infosecinstitute.co...ity-vs-length/
e.g. P8assw0rd!1991 - https://howsecureismypassword.net/ - would take a computer today 204 million years to crack
p.s. don't worry, that's not my password :P
That's my password! How did you get it? :)Quote:
e.g. P8assw0rd!1991 - https://howsecureismypassword.net/ - would take a computer today 204 million years to crack
I use Acronis True Image who also offer a cloud based back up so using all the useful information here I am going for it.
hey I didn't know you were born in '91! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by gwpriester
that would depend on how quickly you can type and of course, choosing something that you can remember easily - actually for me all lowercase letters would be quicker than using shift especially if its a password with rhythm ....
satisfying security requirements is subjective
if a hacker is using a computer program to go through the combinations all that keeps you safe is the number of possible combinations which must be high enough to take too long...
Another fault with Cloud base systems is you need internet to access while with an external drive you do not. Here in the NorthEast we havehad a lot of bad storms that have taken down not only the power but also the cable and pone lines this past Winter and Spring. Power usually gets restored fairly quickly but the other lines can take weeks.
A friend on mine, his wife works for an Optometrist and they can not send in any eye class prescriptions to be made or process any insurance claims without the internet. They were without internet access for over 2 weeks. Can you imagine if you were a designer and need to get a design off the cloud during this time.
Everything has both good and bad point and need to be looked at carefully.
Ray
I agree that having your actual business, [as opposed to tertiary backups], internet based is not without risk :(
I looked into this.. my info is that it could be cracked relatively quickly with the right algorithms...Quote:
P8assw0rd!1991 - https://howsecureismypassword.net/ - would take a computer today 204 million years to crack
here's something you might want to read as a starting point:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/5...good-password/
just checking your password in a website checker is like accepting wiki on face value - you need to know what the bad guys are actually doing..
This is OT but almost everything we do is connected to the Internet and if the Internet goes down we are in deep doo doo. Even many traffic signals are controlled by the Internet. Banking. Businesses. The scanners at the supermarket and stores. You name it and it is probably in some way shape or form connected.Quote:
A friend on mine, his wife works for an Optometrist and they can not send in any eye class prescriptions to be made or process any insurance claims without the internet. They were without internet access for over 2 weeks. Can you imagine if you were a designer and need to get a design off the cloud during this time.