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Originally Posted by petercreasey
My fear is a fire.
A friend of mine had his house burn down and lost everything.
I have everything backed up on hard drives, but don't store anything off premises.
A fire would be devastating.
On the other hand, storing things in "the cloud" is risky...despite what security vendors might say.
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One of my brothers is a professional photographer, so he has several Tb data vital to his business. He set up a "professional" strategy of backup, plus he doesn't trust clouds. So every time he visits me (which is mostly every week), he rotates the complete backup he saves here.
I used to do complete backups every month, but of course when my PC crashed, it was the day before. So now I do a dated weekly backup of "vital" data, among which Outlook and accounting, and send it in an encrypted file to my personal cloud (at OVH) - my brother generated the random password, and we kept the first three lines. I also backup specific folders every time I have worked long on something, for instance Calibre (the portable version), or holiday photos.
I started giving my brother one backup drive to store after the last crash, and plan to rotate it at least monthly.
I use Whereisit to follow the internal and external drives, whether closed Archives or clones or active.
Without a strong push and help from my brother and several PC crashes I wouldn't have arrived where I am now, but I've always had at least my monthly backups.