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Originally Posted by plsureking
yea keep it local. upfront cost but no monthly costs. if you choose one of these "cloud" solutions, you are married to them, paying monthly fees, and your data is at risk to any random issue.
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Not exactly. Your data is always yours and you always have access to it. A good cloud backup strategy would include backups in 2 different physical locations, at both an East Coast and a West Coast data center of AWS for example, which you can manage. So this means that even in the event of a catastrophic disaster, you can still access your data. And like any good datacenter, built-in redundancy, backups, hardware replacements, UPS's and especially security are all a part of the service.
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Originally Posted by plsureking
you can get 16TB drives on Amazon (prime not aws lol) for around $300.
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This might be a good idea, but the question to ask is how valuable is the data. If the owner cannot ever lose the data and must have it accessible, then a cloud backup needs to be considered as a part of the overall backup strategy, since hard drives can fail, power failures can occur, OS's can crash, Ransomware attacks, etc etc.