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Incredible.

McGill really went all-in on cloud storage without ANY local backups. An institution. Wow.

I bet next you’ll tell me they’re gonna open a consumer Backblaze account.

This is pretty standard in corporations these days. My org did the same. The assumption is that if it’s not in confluence or GitHub then it’s not worth keeping this goes in one drive.

It is quite frankly insane.

Not at all for universities I would say, at least in EU, but maybe here there is just more care in general put into privacy issues and where the data is stored.

But in general it is a trend that IT services are outsourced and that IT departments, and in general administration, in many universities suffer cuts, which is really bad. Apart from the problems this causes, imo this also pauses a security risk as if people's needs are not well covered by services provided, people will find their own solutions without knowledge or consideration to security.

Enterprise backup solutions are high maintenance product even when they actually do what they claim which is not a guarantee. And the way onedrive sneaks it's way into the organisation without an structured plan means that they often don't get covered by backup policies the way you might do if IT was commissioning a fileshare or locally hosted product using traditional non-agile processes.

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