What about pirated stuff?

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    17 hours ago

    Everyone else has answered your question, so I’ll answer the one you didn’t ask.

    For physical backup, you want two local network backup drives that alternate in backing up your data hourly when you’re on the local network. That way, you have three copies of the data and if one fails, you can swap it out.

    Then you ALSO want rotating backups that get stored off site (eg in a safe deposit box). Every 3 months or so, you take the one of these at home that’s 6 months old, back everything up to it, take it to the offsite and retrieve the other one.

    This means that if something corrupts your data and you don’t notice until your local backups are also corrupted, you have two older snapshots — one of which is somewhere else, so if your home gets destroyed you still have a backup.

    The cloud backups can be layered on top of this as desired; they all serve different backup purposes.