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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Cloud services aren't necessarily flaky, but their future is far from assured at this point in time. Other problems to note are possible price hikes, changes in terms and conditions, and changes in specification.
If you want to use a cloud service, then just buy a good NAS and put it at a family member's home for an off-site backup. Put *his* NAS in *your* home and you both have an off-site backup. Many NAS-es have cloud services and accompanying apps built in nowadays.
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I was thinking about that, but decided against it (price being a very big part of this).
Everything I want saved is on a NAS (full backup raid, I never know what number it is, so that if one drive crashes, the other still has all the data the first held, the only drawback is that you have only half the storage space). It's also on one of two cloud services.
The chances that both my house burn down (or both the HDDs of the NAS crash at the same time) and the cloud service closing down without notice is so small, I'll take the risk.