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If nothing else, external hard drives are cheap and robust enough that I think more people should invest in having an offsite backup. Annually make a full backup, write the date on the outside, and leave it at the parents house. Make that your family holiday ritual.

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As of recently, my setup for backups consists of 2x4 TB HDDs (from different manufacturers) with BTRFS in RAID 1, plugged into a small 2-drive USB3 docking station. With both checksumming and mirroring, feels pretty safe from HW-failure/bit rot standpoint (if one disk fails, you can still mount the other in "degraded" mode).