Our own Dr. Mac created a public service announcement he calls, « Why not having an offsite backup is not an option…” It’s 90 seconds long and makes an excellent point, so ignore it at your own peril…
Check It Out: Why not having an offsite backup is not an option…
The downside of cloud offsite backup is (1) cost, (2) NSA paranoia. So what I do is back up a smaller portion of my data that would be devastating if I lost it. The rest is on normal hard drive backups where one of them is kept in a fireproof box elsewhere in the house. So my backup has a pretty good chance of surviving some disasters, but if not, at least the most important things can be recovered. I really don’t need my 8th grade homework, after all. (And yet I keep it …)
If a nuclear holocaust hit my house I probably wouldn’t care about much of anything anymore.
I prefer offsite backup in case of a nuclear holocaust
A bit subtle, but he makes a good point