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by nine_k 1953 days ago
Depends on your bandwidth requirements. Also, if you want even higher reliability, you might consider getting two independent internet links into your basement, which is pretty doable in an urban setting.
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But they wont have diverse routing :-) all it takes is a navvy with a back hoe digging in the wrong place.

And you also need to have diverse routing for power coming in and generator / battery room set up.

Run the backup from your friend's basement in the next town over using a different ISP. You can run the backup for them.
For a long time, my off-site backup was at my grandmother's house because it was the furthest geographic location I could give someone a box who would leave it plugged into their Internet. ;)