[DiapDealer]

I don't trust the cloud 100% either. Nor do I trust my various external backup drives (onsite or off) 100%. But taken together as a whole ... I'm pretty confident my data is fairly safe. The cloud's convenient for glitches--like if I just forgot to put a file on my laptop/tablet before I left the house.

If my house burns down and I have to go pick up an offsite physical backup (and a new PC to put it on), so be it. I accounted for that. In the meantime, if I accidentally delete a file on my laptop/tablet, and I'm out and about and want to show somebody something, I'll download it from the cloud and be happier than a hog in mud that I didn't have to go back home (or wait until Uncle Jimmy got back from the Ren Fair [or wait for the bank to open so I could get to my safety deposit box]) before I could access a physical backup of it.

It's not like it's an either/or proposition. Some use one, some use the other, many use both. That you (rhet.) don't like the idea of cloud storage is hardly relevant to whether or not cloud storage is useful as part of a backup/remote access plan. It is. Undeniably so.