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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
Also, even if you use, let's say, an external HDD, which you then put away (either in your house or somewhere else), that one can also break down. So, no matter what choice you use, as long as it's only one backup, you can still lose your data.
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External HDDs are cheap enough that I keep (occasionally) buying another. I've now got 4 (5? I forget) in rotation for my backups, plus another doing more regular Time Machine backups on my mac.
I don't do these backups *often* (once a week for the Time Machine, and once a month for the total-system-copy to one of the HDDs). But then, I don't *do* much on my home machine, since I've spent all day at my work machine. I only do email, really. I store my ebooks and audiobooks at home, but I generally have them at work too. So my frequency makes sense to me.