Thanks for replying, but in two words, "don't care". Not about your comment, but about the direction it goes. I object to misleading verbiage. What the official said was demonstrably, provably, clearly false. That is bad and a problem and that shouldn't be allowed to go unchallenged.

The why of there not being a backup is beside the point. The speed at which government moves is beside the point. That you got crap Internet is beside the point. They may all be interesting points, but they are not relevant to the point I was making.

Interesting. Anything to do with Trump boosts Argentina's Milei with $20 billion lifeline? Just asking as OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman apparently donated (at least) $1 million to Trump's re-election campaign and there's also OpenAI's Sam Altman Flip Flops On Trump After $500 Billion Stargate AI Project.

Which now includes being President of the U.S. ... /s (sigh)

Sir Mix-A-Lot: "I like Big Bugs and I cannot lie ..." :-)

Ya, I think I read that somewhere. :-)

... he forgot. :-)

Calling it "Snake Oil" is probably out.

In the process of switching to using other system full-time that's running Mint... So far, have just been lazy. All my systems are (technically) too old to run Windows 11, but all run Linux (or BSD) just fine. Thank you MS for forcing me to switch!

I can see the ad now...

I agree the official didn't say it couldn't have a backup due to cost. And I demonstrated that size is not a prohibitive factor. That quantity of data can be backed up, and can be backed up easily. Could have had a backup. Not could not have had a backup.

For the official to claim could not have when it could have is misleading. The why of it not having a backup doesn't get asked when the baseline is "couldn't have".

Once we arrive back at could have had a backup system it's just about the reasons/excuses. I object primarily to falsely cutting off that discussion.

I had MythTV on an old PC with an analog 4-tuner card and it worked great for years until my provider switched to digital only. I could have tried a HDHomeRun / Silicondust box with CableCard for the digital tuner, but my provider applies the Copy Control bit liberally and I didn't feel like futzing around with it. I got a 1TB TiVo Bolt and have been happy with it; I'm still using the legacy interface, not the "New Experience" and am happy I didn't "upgrade" the UI. If this setup stops working, I may try using Channels and TV Everywhere combination.

My favorite is the snowjob. "The G-Drive couldn't have a backup system due to its large capacity."

Couldn't. A quick Amazon lookup shows me a 20T Ironwolf Pro is $455 CDN. 50 of those gets you 1P, at under $25k CDN.

Now, sure, you need a some of infrastructure to connect 50 drives. And you need some infrastructure and bandwidth to handle syncing between the two sites. But... that's a cloud provider's task. Bottom line is that for the price of less than a single Hyundai EV, you could own the hardware which would last for about 5 years. Divide that down to monthly payments and that's the ballpark of what you'd be paying a cloud provider.

Couldn't. Come on.

I must be really out of touch. I have never heard of this guy, or his channel name, until now. And I'm on YouTube and TikTok daily...

While I agree that their position is probably (at least) a bit hyperbolic, an argument could be made, from a support standpoint, that it would be preferable for all systems to go through the entire, same setup process, rather than having to deal with some that stopped at random points. From a real-life example, long ago, when I was a sys-admin at NASA LaRC and we had to do shifts on the Help Desk ...

I'm sure that "rock solid" evidence will be presented just after the GOP replacement for the ACA and "Infrastructure Week". :-)