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by azinman2 1537 days ago
This is why I would never trust a hosted web app to do something like this. I fully expect my house to last much longer than any such company. I’d want an app I run on my computer with data that I can export to something time lasting like CSV/PDF/etc.
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Good luck accessing that data after a fire. Would be better to have the insurance company store it.
If you can select the save location for the database file, nothing says you cannot use a Dropbox folder or some other cloud file sharing service.
That’s what cloud backups are for…
if the web app allows csv download, i dont see the issue. set up an automation to download a local copy every week or whatever.

the download better be secure, but that's very doable