@NCperson wrote:Having a backup on a jump drive is great, but if you lose the jump drive and / or there is a fire in your residence, what good is it?
Personally, I have a fireproof file cabinet, and a separate small safe box, where I store my flash drives plus a safe deposit box at a local branch bank (free via my brokerage account) that I visit a couple of times each year. No thanks to paying for a cloud-based service that charge an annual or monthly fee, require internet access whenever data needs to be checked and can be compromised.
Small, essentially fireproof, safe boxes are available for 50 bucks or less. The odds of losing a flash drive are slim to none, particularly if you have multiple flash drives which are cheap as dirt and assuming you're not an idiot. The odds are probably even lower that your residence will catch fire in the exact same location you're storing your flash drive (and everybody should have more than one, anyway).
