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Originally Posted by Ealdwulf
You nailed that on the head. 
Cloud is really just a network storage solution with the feature to sync between it and local storage turned on. Effectively it is just an offsite NAS or SAN. It's just that the NAS/SAN that is used is owned by someone else.
DAS, Tape, or hell even a local NAS is a much better backup solution. Even a second computer works. |
Local NAS or a second computer won't help you in case of fire, flood, earthquake and so on. No offsite backup. Maybe you don't care, but other people do.