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by gregmac 3418 days ago
I'd also add not just different location but different account.

If your cloud account, datacenter/Colo or office is terminated, hacked, burned down, or swallowed by a sink hole.. You don't want your backups going with it.

Cloud especially: even if you're on aws and have your backups on Glacier+s3 with replication to 7 datacenters in 3 continents... If your account goes away, so do your backups (or at least your access to them).