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Originally Posted by Sirtel
It's never a good idea to use only one backup method. That's why I use both external drives and Dropbox, so I won't have to rely solely on either of them. A friend's or a relative's house is not an option for me, as I already said.
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Put me in the paranoid camp.
For more than 10 years I have used three: my NAS (Synology and Acronis), Dropbox (for some things), and a cloud incremental file backup service (LiveDrive). Each had its advantages and disadvantages. I have upgraded/recovered our computers multiple times over those years and have always been able to use the backup on my NAS to get my data. I have used LiveDrive when recovering some stuff when travelling or when I needed something older than I keep on the NAS. I use Dropbox when I want 2-way sync or access from our phones.
Recovering/upgrading a machine from the NAS is relatively easy. Recovering it from LiveDrive is more difficult because it doesn't have OS images, but doable (I have done it). Dropbox is for convenience.