I recently downloaded Microsoft Powerpoint on my Mac. I found out that when I edit my presentation it will actually autosave it to cloud, just like the web app. It was working well for a while. But today I closed my window somehow hours of my progress was gone. Turns out that I ran out of the “free 5gb of storage” and I ran out of storage without noticing it, so it did not save. I’m never going for cloud EVER again. We all make mistakes, and this one taught me a lesson not to use cloud storage. BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP GUYS
Running out of space will cause problems with anything. I just went to edit a config file on my Docker VM, and not only would it not write the changes, but it somehow deleted the original file at the same time! Yep, root volume was full (I really need better monitoring/alerting…), but after cleaning out some unneeded Docker build cache I was able to restore the file from yesterday’s backup and all was well.
Moral of the story - cloud isn’t the problem, it’s lack of storage. It’s always lack of storage. ;)