@NCperson wrote:
@Opus 17 - what I was referencing was backup services such as DropBox or Carbonite..... there is always the option to have a backup removable drive in your house, but the risk is fire, etc. and there is no offsite backup remaining.
True, but even then you are relying on them to follow their TOS, to be secure, and so on. (I keep a physical backup at my office and rotate it occasionally and I have a physical backup of my office computer at home, even though my work product is theoretically backed up off-site.)
Another true story: My former employer had a shared server farm that most offices used for backup (as well as project sharing) and the shared server was supposed to be backed up every night. When the server crashed one time, they found that the backup was corrupted--all the files were present, but the index was corrupted, so every file (millions) was recovered to a single folder with no hierarchy, no idea of ownership, no permissions (everyone could see everything) etc.
