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by JCole 4191 days ago
You don't need to backup to the cloud, have people forgotten about physical hard drives?
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I do have a physical hard disk for my backups but I also backup some critical data "on the cloud" (actually, some servers of mine). There is always a chance that the pc and the disk are stolen by a burglar or my house catches fire. Then there is the matter of making the encryption and access keys survive any of those events.
Yep, a good mitigation plan is a 2tb time capsule. All my precious cat photos are backed up on the regular, encrypted and within reach.
As long as you remember to keep that drive unplugged - otherwise it'll get cryptolocked with everything else.