Hey everyone, I work for Symform and wanted to chime in here. We use a RAID-like algorithm to build redundancy into the data we store on devices. So only a portion of the devices storing any one block need to be available at any given time in order to restore the data. And the system is self-healing, so if we notice a device down for a certain amount of time the fragments that it hosts will be regenerated and redistributed. Read more about this from these links:

click here in regard to using external drives, the advantage of a cloud service like Symform is that it is constantly updated in real time (assuming you are connected to the internet) so you don't have to remember to copy files over on some schedule. Also, if you have your stuff on a drive and that drive is lost or destroyed you are SOL. With a cloud service you don't have to worry about fire, theft, or hardware failure. Of course, having your important stuff on a removable drive is a good first step if you aren't doing any other backup.

Hope that helps!

http://www.symform.com/join-the-revolution/how-symform-works/data-redundancy/

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Thanks for the interesting explanation.

Very odd. It relegated my "And" to the bottom, where it should have read "And in regard to using external drives." Those two links should have been right before that sentence, and I never typed "click here." :)

symform, When a url is pasted in it changes to the words 'Click Here'. Unfortunately, sometimes - as your post shows - there is some sort of glitch that causes the word after the url to move to the bottom and your 2nd url to be pasted in full.

There are variations on the above that seem to happen at random. We've learnt to live with it :)

It never seems to post the way it is set out in the preview box ;-)