That syncing feelingīut you must understand how the synchronisation works. Today, I’d add a corollary: backups don’t really exist unless you have at least three on different media in different places, and deleting one must not affect any of the others.
You may have come across Schofield’s Second Law of Computing, which states that data doesn’t really exist unless you have at least two copies of it. I might make an exception for stone tablets, but they are not practicable for storing photos and videos. However, you can never assume that your data is safe, whether you’re asking about cloud services, network servers, PCs, smartphones, USB hard drives, thumb drives, SD cards, or CD-Rom, DVD or Blu-ray discs. You should be able to retrieve most or all of your photos if your smartphone or laptop breaks or is lost or stolen. It’s very handy to have files synchronised with online services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Apple iCloud, Flickr or whatever. Is this the case or should I be backing it up as well? Andrew I use Google Drive and Dropbox to store all my data, and I assume that because my data is synced that it is safe.
