Poll: Most or all of my work is: Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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| Saved locally | Jul 17, 2023 |
In general, I save finished translations locally, but those I'm still working on in the cloud (in case my computer decides to breathe it's last overnight).
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Zea_Mays 
Italy
Local time: 10:30
Member (2009)
English to German
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| Locally - "cloud" is misleading | Jul 17, 2023 |
In the "cloud" means on servers that are often in unknown locations on the premises of an often equally unknown company = security and confidentiality breach concerns. In addition, the "cloud" is an environmental issue.
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I don't need the cloud, and for a the same reasons as above, I don´t use it.
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Michael Harris
Germany
Local time: 10:30
Member (2006)
German to English
| Partially correct | Jul 17, 2023 |
Zea_Mays wrote:
In the "cloud" means on servers that are often in unknown locations on the premises of an often equally unknown company = security and confidentiality breach concerns. In addition, the "cloud" is an environmental issue.
I alwas thought that as well until my sister who is in the industry explained that your data is never stored at one location and that it is almost impossible to steal it. Those cases where data was stolen were insider jobs.
I never use the cloud either. I have several external hard disks and back them up every couple of weeks.
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All my work is saved on my PC and from time to time on an external drive (thanks for reminding me as I haven’t done this lately)…
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Zea_Mays
Italy
Local time: 10:30
Member (2009)
English to German
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| all points still valid | Jul 17, 2023 |
Michael Harris wrote: Zea_Mays wrote:
In the "cloud" means on servers that are often in unknown locations on the premises of an often equally unknown company = security and confidentiality breach concerns. In addition, the "cloud" is an environmental issue. I alwas thought that as well until my sister who is in the industry explained that your data is never stored at one location and that it is almost impossible to steal it. Those cases where data was stolen were insider jobs. I never use the cloud either. I have several external hard disks and back them up every couple of weeks.
I wrote "locationS", I know they use redundant systems. Still, the point is: shit happens, as Mr. Murphy would say. And when shit happens at that level, it is big shit.
Once data are outside your (home) office, you have no control over them. The only thing you can do is trust and hope to be a lucky guy.
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Ventnai
Spain
Local time: 10:30
German to English
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| On hard disk and external drives | Jul 17, 2023 |
I keep most of mine on the computer and make backups on external drives. I have projects stretching back years and years. I don't know what use they are as clients may come back with a question at the latest a month or two later and then the project is not ever needed again. All the information is stored in translation memories anyway but some of my early translations are out of date now - times (and terminology) have changed.
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Kay Denney
France
Local time: 10:30
French to English
I have my hard drive and a USB stick, which I admittedly forget to use. I have been known to recover files from Gmail, since attachments are copies of what is on my hard drive. I suppose that's in a cloud somewhere?
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Most of the texts I've translated over the years were eventually published and ended up in the public domain.
I do keep local backups, though, until I'm sure the work I've delivered has been received and has moved on to the next phase.
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Alex Lichanow
Germany
Local time: 10:30
Member (2020)
English to German
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All my files are stored on my local hard drive and backed up to a local external drive with no internet connectivity. Some of my customers actually prohibit online/cloud backups, and I personally think it would be too much of a hassle to set up cloud storage for backup purposes.
I also have a monthly routine of deleting any customer files I haven't touched in a year.
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Gianni Pastore
Italy
Local time: 10:30
Member (2007)
English to Italian
| No long term backups | Jul 18, 2023 |
In 23+ years I've never had the need to get an old file back, not once. So I keep all the working files for 3-4 months after I delivered them and then wipe 'em. The only thing I back up locally and on the cloud is my TM.
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:30
Member (2008)
Italian to English
Alex Lichanow wrote:
.... it would be too much of a hassle to set up cloud storage for backup purposes.
Plus: you have to pay for cloud storage- the more you need, the more it will cost you. And what happens to your stuff if, for any reason, you don't keep up the monthly payments?
Plus: backing up to the cloud is so slooooooow that for all practical purposes, such as searching for a particular file, or doing incremental backups, it's unusable.
[Edited at 2023-07-18 10:47 GMT]
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