Are You Backing Up Your Backups

I came across this post “Who Protects Your Cloud Data?” by Mike Gunderloy over at Web Worker Daily.  It really struck a chord with me since I am developing a service that rides on top of one of the mentioned storage providers (its not quite ready so more news on that to come).  In any case it appears that OmniDrive, an online storage provider, may have go offline and joined the so called “deadpool”.

How sucky is that.  I started to wonder just how many customers of OmniDrive, who have been trusting their data to OmniDrive, now have not only lost the trust but also their data.  How many have been using OmniDrive to protect their cherished family photos that are gone.  How many have used OmniDrive to store important business documents they no longer have access to ?  It pretty sad, an unfortunate tale of the technology and the companies providing that technology we have come to rely on.

The post points out we need to be selective in trusting our data.  There are other providers out there that are backed by big named companies that will not be going anywhere.  Mozy is backed by EMC and Amazon has their S3 storage platform.  These are sound companies, not a “storage startup”.

Does this affect any of you out there ?  We would love to hear your thoughts.