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by laydn 929 days ago
Wow, we've come back full circle if we're backing up our cloud data to a local SSD :-)
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IMHO, that has always been a good idea.

It’s basically the good old 3-2-1 backup rule: Three copies of your data (your production data and two backups) on two different media, with one copy off-site.

I’d assume having your data in two cloud services is already good enough, assuming they are different companies in different locations.
as an archivist 3-2-2-1 is better. The second 2 indicates that the two backups should be on two different brands of media in case of a catastrophic design flaw.