>With access to a Usenet news server, you can simply upload your backup there, and it will be stored redundantly in news servers all over the world. Best of all, this approach typically costs considerably less than a cloud backup service.
I saw no mention about "retention policies" in the article. For newsgroups with binaries, the other Usenet peer servers can choose to download only text and ignore binaries. Or they only hold binaries for 30 days or whatever discretionary time period they choose based on available disk space.
With AWS Glacier, Backblaze, etc the data retention would be explicitly specified.
I saw no mention about "retention policies" in the article. For newsgroups with binaries, the other Usenet peer servers can choose to download only text and ignore binaries. Or they only hold binaries for 30 days or whatever discretionary time period they choose based on available disk space.
With AWS Glacier, Backblaze, etc the data retention would be explicitly specified.
[1] example of limited retention period: http://www.giganews.com/blog/labels/retention