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Originally Posted by Quoth
Online is vulnerable to power cuts and malware. "Cloud" is outside your control. It's an off site copy, not a true backup and vulnerable to hijack copy, malware, privacy from service company or TLAs, and accessibility (internet connection).
It's slightly nitpicking, as it depends on what you mean by a backup. To me a backup isn't just the same as an online copy.
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A cloud copy is not necessarily just an online copy. It can be a local copy that gets synced to the cloud. So even if internet goes down or the cloud provider goes out of business, you'll still have your local copy.
IMO the best way to back up is to have both local and cloud backups. I make changes to my stuff so often that to keep an offsite copy somewhere else than my home is not viable - it would always be weeks or months out of date. The only offsite solution for me is the cloud. Nowhere it is said that you must rely solely on the cloud; you can always keep local backups as well. It's not an one or the other scenario.