[merb]

well it is a backup. if you loose the backup but have the original, there is no problem. if you loose the original but have the backup on a cloud, there is no problem.

of course if you loose both at the same time, that's bad. actually the best thing is of course to use multiple backup locations

[brazzledazzle]

It seems like there’s two types of backups people think about: Archival and Current. In the case of the former the “original” may very well be the cloud hosted backup. But I suppose the solution is the same regardless: backup time multiple providers and or locations.