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by radicalbyte 4797 days ago
> 2. The backup problem. If my cloud account "goes dark" > for whatever reason, I'm dead in the water, and > I'm helpless to fix it.

Isn't the cloud part of your back-up strategy? For example, I use OneNote for all of my notes. It syncs the notes on my PC to the cloud. As long as I'm connected, I have a backup online.

Changes also sync to my other computers when they're online.

Additionally, the notebooks are included in the local data backups we make (in our case off-sited to our ISP).

Sensitive stuff is encrypted in TrueCrypt, and the TrueCrypt volume is stored on DropBox. MI5/CIA could probably break the encryption, but there are easier ways for them to get at it.. http://xkcd.com/538/