This is why you should host your data locally, or at very least have local backups

[Red Squirrel]

OneDrive user locked out of "30 years worth of photos and work" without any support — calls Microsoft a "Kafkaesque black hole"​

OneDrive user locked out of "30 years worth of photos and work" without any support — calls Microsoft a "Kafkaesque black hole"

The user's 18 compliance forms have been met with complete radio silence from Microsoft.

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Actual source:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1ldef4p/microsoft_locked_my_account_i_lost_30_years_of

My company is going all in on Microsoft's cloud ecosystem and I feel it will bite them in the ass one day. We don't even have local home directories anymore and they discourage saving anything locally on our machines. We have no backups or any easy way to create them.

 

[Fenixgoon]

i actually do practice 3-2-1 now...maybe not perfectly, but i have:
local copy (portable SSD)
network backup (NAS)
cold storage (4TB HDD)

saved my ass when my laptop's mobo decided to crap out and screwed the HDD too.

 

[biostud]

Yeah, all my cloud files (mostly photos) are locally stored too, and I have an external harddrive where I do backups ~4 times/year.

 

[lxskllr]

I don't trust cloud anything. In every case it's a 'nice to have' addon feature. I rely on it for nothing. If all my cloud stuff disappeared, my life would be substantially the same, with a smidge less convenience.

 

[dullard]

We've all heard the same advice for our whole lives: Always put all your eggs in one basket, that you can't see, and give it to someone else to handle. Makes perfect sense. There really is no other reasonable way.

 

[MrSquished]

Have always had a local backup for many years now. I have an SSD here I keep updated, and my sister has a backup of mine at her place which I update once in a while. And Google Drive of course.