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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? How safe is Dropbox and Ubuntu one? Would you store critical files or programs there? Any comments o Post 302879576 by rbatte1 on Friday 13th of December 2013 07:28:40 AM
Old 12-13-2013
I'm sure that they are reasonable and I would not wish to disparage or defame them in any way, especially not in a slanderous way. I have no experience of them.

The question you need to ask yourself is:-
If they were to be attacked and your data copied and/or deleted, would that be a problem?
So, when you break it down further:-
  • Is it commercially sensitive?
  • It is personally sensitive? - e.g. customer details
  • Is it critical to your recovery processes?

These are the things you should consider first. If your data falls into any of these, then I would suggests you need to arrange a paid-for contract with a supplier and store real media with your own encryption and practice the recovery process.

This last point is very important. Imagine assuring the regulator/auditors/government/whomever for years that the backups are all fine only to find that you can't actually restore.


I hope that this gives you something to consider.

Like I said at the beginning, I have no experience of the companies you mention and do not wish this to be considered as defaming or slanderous in any way, but YOU are responsible for your data so you have to consider the risks you might be exposing yourself to, even if these are reputable companies.



Robin
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Config::Model::CursesUI(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			      Config::Model::CursesUI(3pm)

NAME
Config::Model::CursesUI - Curses interface to edit config data SYNOPSIS
use Config::Model ; use Config::Model::CursesUI ; my $model = Config::Model -> new ; my $inst = $model->instance (root_class_name => 'XXX', instance_name => 'yyy'); # create dialog my $dialog = Config::Model::CursesUI-> new ( experience => 'beginner', # or 'advanced' ) ; # start never returns $dialog->start($model) ; DESCRIPTION
This class provides a Curses::UI interface to configuration data managed by Config::Model. IMPORTANT: Once the CursesUI object is created, STDOUT and STDERR are managed by the Curses interface, so all print and warn will not work as expected. CONSTRUCTOR
The constructor accepts the following parameters: experience Specifies the experience level of the user (default: "beginner"). The experience can be "master advanced beginner". load Subroutine ref containing the code to load the configuration data from the configuration files. This may overrides loading mechanism specified in the model with Config::Model::AutoRead. This sub is called without any arguments. store Subroutine ref containing the code to store the configuration data in the configuration files. This may overrides writing mechanism specified in the model with Config::Model::AutoRead. This sub is called without any arguments. AUTHOR
Dominique Dumont, (ddumont at cpan dot org) LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2007-2009,2011 Dominique Dumont. This file is part of Config-Model. Config-Model is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Config-Model is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser Public License along with Config-Model; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA SEE ALSO
Config::Model, Config::Model::ObjTreeScanner, Curses::UI, Curses perl v5.10.1 2011-03-04 Config::Model::CursesUI(3pm)
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