Forget the Cloud: Why I Back Up the Old-School Way

Paranoia, inertia, and other reasons to avoid cloud backup

Matthew MacDonald
OneZero
Published in
9 min readFeb 19, 2020

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TThese days, if you admit that you make physical backups, you’ll get some curious looks. It’s not all that different from telling someone you harvest your own honey or still collect CDs. (I would say records, but everyone knows that records are back as a popular collectible item.)

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Matthew MacDonald
OneZero

Teacher, coder, long-ago Microsoft MVP. Author of heavy books. Join Young Coder for a creative take on science and technology. Queries: matthew@prosetech.com