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Originally Posted by Toxaris
The really important stuff I have on my computer, my NAS and encrypted on one or more cloud services. From my work I learned a lesson a long time ago. Never store backups on the same device and/or location....
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I learned it in the mid-nineties. Stored some backups on the second HDD in my 486. It was the time where you used Vesa Local Bus I/O-cards, and a drive that had been formatted while connected to card A, could often not be used in combination with card B. (Just like with many RAID-cards today.)
En then my VLB I/O card went bust after three years, and I wasn't able to find the exact same model anywhere... and I didn't have internet in 1997; and most people hadn't even heard of webstores yet. Most of the big ones didn't even exist back then. (I got my first internet connection in 1998.)
Now I use my desktop as main computer. I use an external drive (not connected to the computer except when backing up), and after a particularly big or important change, I sync the laptop's data partition with the one on the desktop.
The really important stuff is backed up on another drive which is stashed at my mother's home.