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Originally Posted by Quoth
The "cloud" won't wreck your Calibre library if used correctly, but a USB HDD left at a friend/relative's house can work out cheaper if you have a big library. Might be more secure and private.
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That's presuming you have a friend or a relative you visit often enough to update your backup regularly. And even if you have such a person, naturally this friend or relative is on vacation just at the moment you need that backup urgently.
As for me, I have no other way to keep an offsite, regularly updated backup than to keep in in the cloud. I visit my relatives a few times a year; that's certainly not enough to keep most of my stuff up to date (I make changes almost every day in my various files). I do back up on external drives, but those are not off site. And external drives can die; you have to use more than one and replace them with new ones after a while, just in case.
Of course a cloud server may go belly up too, but usually you'll still have your local copy in that case. IMO it's best to use more than one backup method, unless you have some really sensitive stuff in your files. But in that case you'd better not leave that backup with a friend or a relative either.