"The cloud" strikes again.

On Aug 24, 2020, Alan Browne wrote
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On 2020-08-23 21:24, Bill W wrote:
On Aug 23, 2020, Alan Browne wrote
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On 2020-08-23 13:30, Savageduck wrote:
On Aug 23, 2020, Alan Browne wrote
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On 2020-08-22 13:53, Savageduck wrote:
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On 2020-08-22 11:14, RichA wrote:
On Friday, 21 August 2020 18:51:08 UTC-4, Savageduck wrote:
On Aug 21, 2020, RichA wrote
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On Friday, 21 August 2020 14:03:57 UTC-4, Alan Browne wrote:
On 2020-08-20 10:58, RichA wrote:
https://petapixel.com/2020/08/20/lig...e-wipes-users-
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otos-and-presets-adobe-says-they-are-not-recoverable/

Is there a lost generation that's never heard of backups?

You are right, the CLOUD COMPANY should have had backups.

I guess you didn’t bother to read beyond the headline.

The actual issue was for users of the iPad & iPhone versions of
mobile Lightroom who had NOT synced their image files to Adobe
Creative Cloud storage. So Adobe Creative Cloud had backups if the
dumb users had bothered to sync their files to CC. If they had done
so
their image files would have been recoverable.

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Regards,
Savageduck

Technical issues, bankruptcy, hacking. All put cloud storage in-doubt.
While triple redundancy sounds good, a lot of smaller companies opt
for
cloud systems because they don't want ANY internal infrastructure/or
I.T. costs.

Unacceptable risk for any company. There's no problem with outsourcing
services, including backups, but relying on a 'cloud' solution alone
(whether for convenience or cost) is pretty dumb.

OTOH, I use cloud storage for a simple reason: convenience. All of my
active business (and much of my personal financial) data is available
to
me wherever I am. But it's backed up separately and often.

Regarding Adobe, they are a software company who make utilities for
creatives. Storage is not their core expertise - it is a market access
vehicle.

No wonder they have problems.

However, Adobe isn’t having problems with Creative Cloud storage, that
works just fine.

Really? Didn't they have a massive data breach last year?

We are talking about the lates two updates to Lightroom for iPad& iPhone.
The one which caused the problem, and the one which fixed the problem.
Through that issue Adobe didn’t have a problem with Creative Cloud
storage.

Irrelevant. It's a gear in the machine. Their machine broke. Again.


The “massive data breach� last year had nothing to do with Creative
Cloud storage, but certainly accessed some account data.

“massive� is subjective. Of some 60+ million subscribers 7.5 million
accounts were affected.

Joseph Stalin lives on.


The vulnerable data included email addresses, products subscribed to,
account creation date, subscription & payment status, local time zone,
member ID, time of last login, and whether or not the subscriber was an
Adobe employee. that was on October 19 2019, and the database was secured
the same day.
Adobe issued a statement to subscribers stating the following:

"At Adobe, we believe transparency with our customers is important. As
such, we wanted to share a security update.
Late last week, Adobe became aware of a vulnerability related to work on
one of our prototype environments. We promptly shut down the misconfigured
environment, addressing the vulnerability.

The environment contained Creative Cloud customer information, including
e-mail addresses, but did not include any passwords or financial
information. This issue was not connected to, nor did it affect, the
operation of any Adobe core products or services.

We are reviewing our development processes to help prevent a similar issue
occurring in the future."



The problem reported in this thread is isolated to mobile Lightroom
users
who had not synced their image files to Adobe CC. All files synced to
Adobe CC remain intact, and recoverable.

Execution means - all - of the parts working.

“Execution� Who said anything about execution?

Execution in business is making all the parts work and delivering what
you said you would deliver in the manner you said you would deliver it.
Adobe failed and their customers lost files. Yes, the customers should
protect their own data. I've made that clear enough.

I think some of the pros who lost all their photos might be thinking about
execution, too.

If they weren't making backups of their work they can hardly be called
"pro�.

Well I agree with that. But they can call themselves that. Delusion is not
that rare.