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Originally Posted by Katsunami
In my case, I just backup to an external drive. After 2-3 months, I put that drive at my mom's home, and pick up the one that is there and update the backup on it. Rinse-Repeat. If there's really important stuff that I can't lose (mostly a document or something) I zip it up into a password-protected and encrypted archive and put it into the non-public part of my webspace.
So the very worst that could happen is that I lose two, maybe three months of backups if my house burns down. I think that's an acceptable risk.
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Yes and if the global apocalypse does occur, well we won't be worrying much about the data and media for at least a week or two
I'm with you though. My backups at my sister's, my double backups at home and the odd thing I have encrypted and stored elsewhere are IMO adequate. And if most of it was destroyed, leaving the rest of the world untouched, most is replaceable at a reasonable or often no cost these days.
And how much would I want to replace? Old TV series I have watched, books I have read, games I have finished? I think I would replace them if and when I actually had an urge to replay, reread or rewatch. Seldom.
Sometimes I do that now. Rebuy or re-download an older game because the one I have needs to run on XP and I would prefer it to run on Windows 7.
Pretty sure I am over backing up already
Helen