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A friend of mine had their laptop stolen as well as the external hard drive they used for backups. Years of irreplaceable family photos lost.
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This is so true to have off site backup. Heat and smoke will destroy data disks as was discovered by my cousin in a fire last March. An acquaintance had all her HD and data disks taken by the police because a family member was being investigated and a number of them were 'lost.' In her case though, she had her photos backed up to Walgreens cloud and ebooks in Dropbox. The most common though is as Harry describes, a failed HD.